<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed., 29 Mar. 2017 at 3:16 am, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4580995146181117722WordSection1 gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b class="gmail_msg">On Behalf Of </b>Dylan Distasio<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">​The average UK citizen lives to be 81.2 years old and spends  $4003 a year on healthcare, the average USA citizen lives to be 79.3 years old and spends $9451 on healthcare…John K Clark<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg" style="margin-left:11.55pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">How do we account for the ongoing drug wars in Chicago and other major US cities?  If a drug gangster shoots another 19 year old drug gangster, does that average in to life expectancy?  Why?  What if a drug gang captures a member of a rival gang, takes him to the parking lot of the local hospital, shoot him, he crawls up to the ER, racks up huge bills.  How does that count?<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Alternative: take a group of living 60 yr olds, the kind of people unlikely to perish in these drug wars.  How do those compare between those countries?<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Another observation: it is meaningless to compare socialist countries with capitalist countries, because socialist countries can theoretically raise more funds at the federal level than capitalist governments can.  The US government is already very close to the maximum revenue it can generate.</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>How? They can increase the income tax to 90% if they want.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4580995146181117722WordSection1 gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"></span></p></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>