[83023] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Recent Trend in "Collective Contracts"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Fri Jul 11 03:09:46 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03102805afeab8b29d2f@[207.167.93.63]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:20:45 -0700
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 9:29 AM -0700 7/10/97, Tim May wrote:
>(Caveat: My personal and libertarian view is that lawsuits against
>cigarette companies are wrong and should not be supported in a free
>society. And lawsuits by various states to "recover health care costs" are
>especially bogus. By this logic, McDonald's could be sued by California
>because California paid out more health care benefits to meat-eaters than
>it did to vegetarians. Utterly bogus.)
It is especially bogus since it is not clear that the government isn't a
net winner between reduced social security and pension payments, and the
extra income from tobacco taxes.
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