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No on 71, it's a scam, it will add $6 billion(including interest) to our hugh debt.""

There has been a rumor going around some radio stations that this Prop will also displace blood banks. I don't get that part, if it does.
My objections are that this is "fantasy" research, which the Davis Med school professors are touting- they will be set for life with "research" jobs, as it is a 30 year deal.
WWAAAAAYYYYY TOOO expensive for "Pie in the sky" money spending.
If stem cell research was so promising, the major drug companies would be beating each other up trying to be the first to get it done, as the patents would reside with them for a number of years. If the state funds this, who owns the patents? Do the taxpayers get paybacks on drug royalties?????
This benefits too small a percentage of the population for the money 100% of the population has to spend.
The cig smokers got snookered with paying 50 cents a pack to fund cancer, and other things, and it never has been spent there. They have spent it by the barrelfull in ads featuring the Hollyweirds like Rob Reiner, who promoted this deal. You all got lied to there, and it is $$ out of YOUR pocket. Why do you not realize you probably are being lied to now, and ALL of us have to pay into it?
The wildly high expectations attached to this Prop are way out of whack. It is way too expensive. We are too much in debt in Calif now to sign up for this. It goes too far into the future. It is RESTRICTED to just stem cell research for 30 years. WHAT IF: they find a breakthrough in 4 years? What happens then? Do the "researchers" sit on the news because they would be out of a job? Why continue to fund something that has the answer? If they don't find what they think they can find in 30 years, do they then tell us all: "You have to extend this all because you have already spent XXX$$$ on it so far, ETC ETC.
This is a great big money hole, paid by the many for the benefit of the few. VOTE NO!!
Along with a NO vote on Prop 72.