China bans toxic American computer junk

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sun Jun 9 09:56:56 2002

There must be a better way to effect a 99.999% reduction in world population.
Things were so much better when nobody lived within a lifetime's walk from
anyone else ... <sigh> ... but for the good old days ...

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlos Murillo" <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: China bans toxic American computer junk


> 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.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
>
>
Received on Sun Jun 09 2002 - 09:56:56 BST