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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (496746)11/21/2003 1:54:43 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"Certainly true, though often hard to disentangle."

>>> Yep, it certainly is true that it's hard to disentangle the effects that literally thousands of man-made chemicals in our bodies have upon our health.

>>> But that doesn't mean that the effects aren't real, or that the information isn't valuable to us.

>>> As far as the argument about smoking... you are wrong to say that there is any evidence that it's a 'net economic gain'.

>>> The argument says that it may be a net gain to the GOVERNMENT'S BUDGET --- because the government collects payroll taxes all through a worker's life... but then smoking tends to kill those workers before they live long enough to draw significantly upon Social Security.

>>> That's a long way from saying it's a net gain to the entire economy though. (The calculation tends to ignore lowered and lost productivity, although it supposedly included healthcare costs.)

>>> If killing off citizens in their later years were a net economic good --- then wouldn't a BULLET be a far more cost-effective choice? (The healthcare costs being totally absent in that case.)
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