From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:21:48 +0800
To: Tim May <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: The Recent Trend in "Collective Contracts"
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At 9:29 AM -0700 7/10/97, Tim May wrote:
>(Caveat: My personal and libertarian view is that lawsuits against
>cigarette companies are wrong and should not be supported in a free
>society. And lawsuits by various states to "recover health care costs" are
>especially bogus. By this logic, McDonald's could be sued by California
>because California paid out more health care benefits to meat-eaters than
>it did to vegetarians. Utterly bogus.)

It is especially bogus since it is not clear that the government isn't a
net winner between reduced social security and pension payments, and the
extra income from tobacco taxes.


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