From: DRAGONFLY           
To: CHARLES DITTELL     
Subject: If I were...   
Date & Time: 05/20/91 21:35:03
Message Number 16945

   Interesting ideas.  Mind if I debate them?
   
>1. No death penalty.
     
   No comment; I'm ambivalent about this topic.
   
>2. All commercial items must have the full price shown...
    
   Amen!  Although I'd even more rather have marked on the package the
taxes broken down: the net price, PLUS all of the 'hidden' taxes clearly
marked on the package.
     
>3. All bullets must be made of silly putty.
    
   No. Absolutely not.  It would be very easy to smuggle in guns and
ammunition: the police would be at the mercy of the international crime
rings.
     
>4. Universal full, free health care.
    
   How are you going to pay for that?  And how are you going to get
high-quality doctors to go for that?  TANSTAAFL, friend... and there's
no such thing as free health care.  
   The solution to high-costing health care?  Simple.  Why is health
care expensive?  One of the biggest reasons is insurance.  Why is
insurance so expensive?  People can sue doctors for any amount -- and
get it.  Set a limit to the amount people can sue for doctor's mistakes.
     
>5. Push for U.N. armed force, and reduce ours to 1/10th the personnell.
     
   Interesting.  Again, who pays for it?
                        //Dragonfly//