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To: Road Walker who wrote (363045)	12/21/2007 1:05:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576179

The attempt to outlaw abortion is not primarily do to it being considered immoral. If it was only thought to be just immoral, support for the idea would dwindle. Man, you haven't been paying attention to the abortion debate. Of course it is moral on the anti-abortion side. I didn't say it wasn't considered an issue of morality, but the point is the opposition isn't "that's immoral so it should be illegal", but rather "that's killing an innocent person so it should be illegal". If it was just seen as what some people see gambling or adultery as being there wouldn't be nearly as strong of opposition to it. (Yes gambling is frequently illegal, and there are people who would make adultery illegal, but making either actions illegal has less force behind it than making abortion illegal has. The only reason while gambling is often illegal in the US, and abortion is not, is that there is much more political force behind keeping abortion legal, than there is behind making more forms of gambling legal) It certainly isn't. Esp. to the people who lose their jobs because of such policies. An out of right field comment, with no data, doesn't deserve a response. You can't give data about what hasn't happened. But any decent understanding of economics will quickly lead to a solid conclusion that raising wages well above the market clearing rate for unskilled labor will cause people to lose their jobs. High taxes and extensive regulation puts a downward force on the "tides" I'm not calling for "high" taxes. I'm calling for a bit higher taxes to balance the budget. Than you are calling for high taxes. As far as "extensive regulation" you only have to read the paper to see what lax regulation has wrought. Regulation has steadily increase in the US, each year we are more regulated than the last.