China bans toxic American computer junk

From: Carlos Murillo <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
Date: Sun Jun 9 09:30:20 2002

At 10:49 PM 6/8/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Sort of... only the solution can be less painful:
>
>All people need to do is stop having so many babies. This is why I
>support the "W.C. Fields Memorial Child Tax Bill," a progressively
>incrementing tax on children. One child, a somewhat low tax, such as
>an education tax. Two children, a higher tax is applied. Three
>children, a much higher tax is applied, etc. No more tax deductions
>for dependent children; instead, allow childless people to have
>generous deductions for pets, computer collections (if all of the
>computers are named), plants, etc. It might not hurt to outlaw the
>discouragement of birth control and outlaw any religious dogma which
>encourages people to have children. Give tax breaks to childless
>people and don't tax them for any costs associated with children
>(e.g. education, health care, etc.) Etc.... In other words, reduce
>the population fairly quickly through a decline in the birth rate.
>Simple, humane and effective, what?

But dead wrong. Such an incentive would be positively correlated with
an increase in poverty, which is in turn positively correlated with
an increase in babies.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Sun Jun 09 2002 - 09:30:20 BST