I thought all government funded heart attacks are handled directly by IRS agents.
-Cameron Loathe wrote: > The study didn't say less government funded heart attacks, just less heart > attacks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:18 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Smoke and Mirrors - Study shows Smoking Ban Results in Fewer > Heart Attacks > > G Money wrote: > >> Wait, I thought the idea of letting pure economics solve this issue was >> completely out the window.....???? >> >> >> > > Directly? It is for me. I think a smoking ban has very very little > effect economically on the establishments, good or bad. > > Indirectly? It does have an economic impact. My taxes go to pay for > smoker's health bills. Not exactly a free market force, but it is an > economic impact. Of course the logical Libertarian argument here is > that the government should get out of healthcare too. Unfortunately, > that's a pipe dream - I can't stop the government from taking away my > money and giving it to other people, but in this case a smoking ban > would decrease the amount of money the government spent on healthcare. > I'm pretty sure the government wouldn't actually give any of it back to > me, but at least they wouldn't be spending as much on smoking related > healthcare. > > -Cameron > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249576 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
