To the editor:

I read with interest a news item from the AP Wednesday regarding a Kansas bill to eliminate sales tax on food. The story reported that it would “cost the government” $250 million a year. Is the reporter ignorant or just biased? How can it “cost” the government? To say so presumes that it is the government’s money to begin with! Eliminating this tax allows Kansas families to keep more of their own money. Only the liberal ideology assumes that when people get to keep what’s theirs, it “costs” the government. Since women are the primary shoppers in the family, blocking this bill is a direct assault on women. Some might say it appears that someone is “waging war on women.”