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Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills

#184
From: John Paul Morrison
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 03:07
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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.
>
>-- 
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>"We've got to get bigger guns" -- Dick Durkin                  schuck@sfu.ca
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From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Subject: Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills
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Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
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