Presidential hopeful John Edwards has been stumping for a national health care system, but claims that taxes will have to be raised to pay for it. Interesting.

The United States can spend billions of dollars on the citizens of Iraq, but in order to fund national health care for Americans, taxes will have to be raised to pay for it.

I have an idea: How about the government of the United States spends our money on us!

Randall Brotherton, Lewiston