suppose I live there when you move your smokestack in, hmm? Suppose my family has always lived there? What happens to my choice then? What about the kids who got leukemia because WR Grace improperly handled solvents and didn't this was important enough to tell anyone?
Obviously stuff happens and sometimecs it even happens by accident. My point is that a tax that goes into general revenue does nothing to mitigate the actual harm, though if it s high enough it may make such behavior less cost-effective. Dana On 1/27/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dana wrote: > > how does such a tax address the basic inequities involved? If I get > > lung cancer because I am downwind from the smokestack you don't have > > pollution controls on because you don't want to spend the money, it is > > small consolation that there is a tax on this... > > > > It's a free country, you can choose to live where you want. If you > choose to live downwind from the stack (and thus get really cheap land > like the deaf around the airport) then that's *your* choice. > > HA! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225967 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
