Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> Dan Clemmensen wrote:
> >
> > Conclusion: If you want the biggest return for your tax dollar, spend
> > it on educating the public about these risks, or simply flatly outlaw
> > tobacco.
>
> The fact is that at this point in time, extending human life produces no
> positive return on investment. Retirement ages are fixed, so any
> extension in human life only increases the demand for social security
> funding and the further increase in confiscatory taxation that funds it.
uh. Is anyone going to force you to actually retire? I don't
think so.
> The VA has very good stats on this (don't have a link at present), but
> the DoD found in the 80's that their programs to get veterans and aging
> active duty personnel to quit smoking and drinking resulted in an
> explosion in VA costs as vets lived far longer, and at far greater
> expense to the military retiree health care system, than if they
> remained addicted and just conveniently died off several years after
> retirment.
>
So you are proposing we kill people off with major booze and
tobacco habits to save a few bucks?
> If you want a return on your tax dollar, index the retirment age to the
> average life expectancy.
I don't want any tax dollars that I need to worry about getting
a return on personally. And I don't support government
mandating when people will retire one way or the other. And I
don't support the Social inSecurity program.
- samantha
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