[fooman]

Correction:


Thank you for flame free debate. I will try to do the same.

Now I see how people think that the young have the appearence of wealth, but its just an illusion.

A young person has low income and no balance sheet.

One must buy a car (even if used) a house, and support a wife/kids and educate oneself obtain seed capital for a business or remain forever poor.

Redistributing income is only more discouraging and INequitable.

Your average 65 year old in most cases will own their house (no rent) and have a port of 100 - 500K or more, unless of course they have lived a life of consumption and laziness.

So why should we tax the young and deny them a balace sheet and future, when either the older people already have OR SHOULD have the money in most cases to pay for drugs.

Its just another addition to the social security ponzi scheme.

[fooman]

Incidentally, another related issue is not being addressed but is another form of evil socialism.

Socialist governments like Canada and Europe DEMAND price discrimination from drug companies.

This means that the average 500MM in development costs for a new drug are disproportionarely paid for by americas.

In other your cost for Zocor or some other new drug MUST be higher, because the lazy socialists in these countries make americans finance their health care!

Let 'em either pay up or use low tech I say.

When I was in France recently, people were very critical of how hard americans work. But they dont seem to mind our hard work financiing their healthcare system! Barf!