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- From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
- Subject: Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.030707.5880@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <schuck.721519561@sfu.ca> <Xy74TB2w164w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> <schuck.721588018@sfu.ca>
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 03:07:07 GMT
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- In article <schuck.721588018@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
- >
- >Air quality in Vancouver is deteriorating rapidly.
- prove it.
-
- >Asthma attacks are increasing astronomically.
-
- prove it.
- >
-
- Like many of your statements, they tend to be sweeping, and without
- even the benefit of some back-of-the-envelope calculations or
- reasonable estimates. No one on the net expects a full research paper
- to back things up, but perhaps something from an article or newsshow?
-
- Please quantify "detiorating rapidly" and "astronomically"
- or "your gas taxes don't pay for it at ALL".
- (To substantiate *MY* claim, I've included statements by you from this
- and past responses. They make a claim, but have no substance beyond
- rhetoric. Therefore, I don't think my claim about you, is a sweeping
- generalization)
-
- The plese explain to me why air quality indexes in Vancouver newspapers are
- consistently in the good to fair quality region.
-
- >It's time to inconvenience *some* people to benefit all.
- >
-
- fine. make people pay a market, cost-recovery rate for the cost of
- the services they use. I should start posting some articles from
- The Economist, or other magazines. There is baffling resistance and
- inexplicable suspicion and distrust of something as conceptually simple
- as market economics. The efficiency and effectiveness of market economics
- is generally accepted in academic circles, there is mostly disagreement
- of the extent and nature of using the market.
- >
- >--
- >============================================================================
- >"We've got to get bigger guns" -- Dick Durkin schuck@sfu.ca
- >============================================================================
-
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