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To: TimF who wrote (87319)	11/20/2004 8:12:09 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 793725

A good summary of why alarmism is bad science.

To: TimF who wrote (87319)	11/20/2004 8:43:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793725

<That free trade is generally beneficial, and that a large amount of CO2 has the potential to cause global warming, are both simple, widely accepted ideas that it is unreasonable to dispute> True Tim, but that doesn't mean free trade is always a good thing or that any amount of CO2 is a bad thing. I dispute both ideas. Some things have optimums with more or less than the optimum being worse. I think the amount of CO2 people are producing might actually be a good thing, not a bad thing, and that there is too much "free trade" and that taxes should be collected at borders, which define governments. Borders are controlled and monitored and inspected and regulated, so they are a good place and an efficient place at which to collect taxes. A ship full of crude oil can't sneak in under the radar. A ship full of anything is quite obvious. Collecting tax from tradesmen and crop growers is much more tricky and expensive. Mqurice