I must give credit to Howler63. Indeed, guns are used for about 30,000 suicides and homicides a year.
Automobiles also account for 30,700 deaths per year. These deaths can be eliminated by imposing very high gasoline taxes and expanding the system of public transportation which is much safer (by a factor of 60) then cars. In Norway gas costs $10/gallon due to taxes.
Smoking does not cause deaths directly, but it shortens peoples lives.
divorce harms society. so lets end divorce by getting rid of the institution of marriage?
Lets not get into this discussion here.
I must give credit to Howler63. Indeed, guns are used for about 30,000 suicides and homicides a year.
Automobiles also account for 30,700 deaths per year. These deaths can be eliminated by imposing very high gasoline taxes and expanding the system of public transportation which is much safer (by a factor of 60) then cars. In Norway gas costs $10/gallon due to taxes.
Smoking does not cause deaths directly, but it shortens peoples lives.
I must give credit to Howler63. Indeed, guns are used for about 30,000 suicides and homicides a year.
Automobiles also account for 30,700 deaths per year. These deaths can be eliminated by imposing very high gasoline taxes and expanding the system of public transportation which is much safer (by a factor of 60) then cars. In Norway gas costs $10/gallon due to taxes.
Smoking does not cause deaths directly, but it shortens peoples lives.
Being Born leads to death.
There are already a huge number of safety regulations on cars that have significantly reduced the death rate due to auto accidents over the last few decades despite the fact there are many more cars on the road. If guns were regulated to the extent that cars are, you would only have a fraction of the type of guns on the market that we do now. I am not saying we should regulate guns like we do cars, but rather I am just pointing out that its a bad comparison.
We should have thought about it 5776 years ago.
There are already a huge number of safety regulations on cars that have significantly reduced the death rate due to auto accidents over the last few decades despite the fact there are many more cars on the road. If guns were regulated to the extent that cars are, you would only have a fraction of the type of guns on the market that we do now. I am not saying we should regulate guns like we do cars, but rather I am just pointing out that its a bad comparison.
Personally, I think health insurance rates and medicare taxes should be higher for smokers to reflect the actual costs they place on the system. Basically, if you want to smoke then fine, but if the actuaries decide that you should be paying twice the health insurance rates and twice the medicare rates, then so be it. That is true with a lot of health choices though. No other insurance works like health insurance. For example, if you are a bad driver and get into lots of accidents and get lots of tickets, you will be paying a significantly higher auto insurance rate than a contentious driver. However, you can be morbidly obese, smoke two packs a day, and still pay the same health insurance rate or medicare rate as a vegetarian triathlete. What was particularly deplorable prior to the ACA is that someone born with something like Cerebral Palsy would be practically uninsurable in the private sector while someone that by their own choices in life was obese and a smoker could get health coverage easily.
There are already a huge number of safety regulations on cars that have significantly reduced the death rate due to auto accidents over the last few decades despite the fact there are many more cars on the road. If guns were regulated to the extent that cars are, you would only have a fraction of the type of guns on the market that we do now. I am not saying we should regulate guns like we do cars, but rather I am just pointing out that its a bad comparison.
Personally, I think health insurance rates and medicare taxes should be higher for smokers to reflect the actual costs they place on the system. Basically, if you want to smoke then fine, but if the actuaries decide that you should be paying twice the health insurance rates and twice the medicare rates, then so be it. That is true with a lot of health choices though. No other insurance works like health insurance. For example, if you are a bad driver and get into lots of accidents and get lots of tickets, you will be paying a significantly higher auto insurance rate than a contentious driver. However, you can be morbidly obese, smoke two packs a day, and still pay the same health insurance rate or medicare rate as a vegetarian triathlete. What was particularly deplorable prior to the ACA is that someone born with something like Cerebral Palsy would be practically uninsurable in the private sector while someone that by their own choices in life was obese and a smoker could get health coverage easily.
There are already a huge number of safety regulations on cars that have significantly reduced the death rate due to auto accidents over the last few decades despite the fact there are many more cars on the road. If guns were regulated to the extent that cars are, you would only have a fraction of the type of guns on the market that we do now. I am not saying we should regulate guns like we do cars, but rather I am just pointing out that its a bad comparison.
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I must give credit to Howler63. Indeed, guns are used for about 30,000 suicides and homicides a year.
Automobiles also account for 30,700 deaths per year. These deaths can be eliminated by imposing very high gasoline taxes and expanding the system of public transportation which is much safer (by a factor of 60) then cars. In Norway gas costs $10/gallon due to taxes.
Smoking does not cause deaths directly, but it shortens peoples lives.
We should have thought about it 5776 years ago.
Smoking does not cause deaths directly, but it shortens peoples lives.
that's really silly because we haven't had near the safety problems with guns as we have had with cars.
I must give credit to Howler63. Indeed, guns are used for about 30,000 suicides and homicides a year.
Automobiles also account for 30,700 deaths per year. These deaths can be eliminated by imposing very high gasoline taxes and expanding the system of public transportation which is much safer (by a factor of 60) then cars. In Norway gas costs $10/gallon due to taxes.
Smoking does not cause deaths directly, but it shortens peoples lives.
I must give credit to Howler63. Indeed, guns are used for about 30,000 suicides and homicides a year.
Automobiles also account for 30,700 deaths per year. These deaths can be eliminated by imposing very high gasoline taxes and expanding the system of public transportation which is much safer (by a factor of 60) then cars. In Norway gas costs $10/gallon due to taxes.
Smoking does not cause deaths directly, but it shortens peoples lives.
People are clearly to stupid, ignorant and misinformed (sometimes intentionally by marketers) to make smart decisions. True libertarianism would be an absolute unmitigated disaster for this country. If anything, as society grows more and more complex we need increased guidance in order to keep up.
No more legal selling of snake oil. Regulate and ban where science indicates such should be the case.
I've had enough with bullsh*t being tolerated in the name of freedom. Do what our smartest minds indicate should be done. Don't leave it to a bunch of ignoramuses to decide for themselves.
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