Is it patriotic to encourage today’s children to smoke cigarettes and be overweight?
Dorothy asked: The overweight child drops dead at 50, having paid into his/ her health plan without drawing on it, or pension provision. In countries ...
Dorothy asked:
The overweight child drops dead at 50, having paid into his/ her health plan without drawing on it, or pension provision. In countries with state pension schemes, like the UK, the hole in pension provision disappears.
The overweight child drops dead at 50, having paid into his/ her health plan without drawing on it, or pension provision. In countries with state pension schemes, like the UK, the hole in pension provision disappears.
Also, cigarette tax provides a substantial contribution to government revenue in the present crisis.
Isn’t it therefore patriotic and heroic to take up smoking on behalf of the nations of the west?
Sandra
lol that’s funny but i think we should consider children lives over being patriotic in this situation.
you might as well donate money to the government if your just smoking to help with the deficit. otherwise your slowly killing yourself when you smoke.
LOL but it makes sense.
Answer mine please?http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100505225210AAZLv1v&r=w
The subpoints for the premise are not true. Overweight people can live until their eighties or longer, sometimes requiring expensive bariatric equipment and extra staffing in hospitals when they become ill. They can still draw on pensions and drain medicare funds. Likewise for cigarette smokers– they don’t necessarily die young either. Smoking (and obesity) costs the country untold billions in healthcare costs, doctor visits, medication, lost wages, etc. Therefore, encouraging such unhealthy activities cannot be responsibly labeled as “patriotic.”
What the article was studying was the monetary affects of various “sins,” and found that while tobacco and alcohol have immediate health costs, they also result in the user paying into social security but drawing out very little, if any. Yes, our socialized medicine and socialized retirement are set up such that the one who dies early supports the others who die later. Thus, we should be funding the social security by both investing in tobacco and alcohol stocks and encouraging its members to consume more tobacco and alcohol. A “fix” to Social Security that no politician will suggest.