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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (17029)	4/19/2010 10:19:04 AM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If we could get off foreign oil to the point that we wouldn't have to invade other countries and spend trillions on 'guarding' access to that oil, perhaps that might be a better deal in the long run, ya think???

To: i-node who wrote (17029)	4/19/2010 8:36:45 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

No matter how good the tax credits are on a bad investment, it is still, at best, a bad investment. In terms of overall net return to the world. In terms of return to you perhaps not so much. If the tax credit was large enough it can even make a money losing investment profitable. More likely it can make the borderline case in to a profitable investment. But if your relying on tax benefits or subsidies your investment has a built in political risk, since the subsidy could be reduced or canceled. Of course to a lesser degree investments in general have this problem since the government could imposes cost on them. That risk is higher in the areas where the government is very active, like health care recently.