The Democrats’ latest plot to pick the pockets of working-class Americans in Massachusetts is to impose a $2 tax per every prescription written in the state.

You’re not supposed to notice it because Gov. Maura Healey describes the tax hike buried deep in her proposed new budget as an “assessment.”

It’s supposed to raise $145 million for MassHealth – the state’s Medicaid system, which is hemorrhaging cash in large part because of the billions being squandered on welfare for illegal aliens in the “shelters,” also known as Healey’s Haitian hotels.

This is where the word “ambulance” comes in.

If you’re an American, and you obey the laws, and you take responsibility for your own life, you probably don’t use ambulances very often, for any number of reasons.

Number one, the expense. Number two, if you don’t really need emergency medical care, you don’t want to tie up resources that might be needed by the truly needy.

But illegal aliens relaxing in the flophouses seem to have few such qualms. Everything free in America, after all. Especially in Massachusetts.