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Article #184Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills
From: John Paul Morrison
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 03:07
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. > >-- >============================================================================ >"We've got to get bigger guns" -- Dick Durkin schuck@sfu.ca >============================================================================ -- __________________________________________________________________________ John Paul Morrison | University of British Columbia, Canada | Electrical Engineering | .sig file without a cause jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca VE7JPM | ________________________________________|_________________________________
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Newsgroups: bc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!utcsri!cs.ubc.ca!fs1.ee.ubc.ca!jmorriso 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> Distribution: bc Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 03:07:07 GMT Lines: 49