Re: Best Ways To Solve America's Health Issues?
Date: October 06, 2011 11:42AM
Value Wrote:
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> JBass Wrote:
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> > CancerTerrorist Wrote:
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> > > With the passing of Steve Jobs at 56 from
> > cancer;
> > > As Amercians we can build nuclear weapons but
> > we
> > > still can't solve cancer? WTF?
> > >
> > > If America could come up with cancer
> treatments
> > > not only would we save thousands of American
> > lives
> > > we could also solve our debt crisis by
> selling
> > the
> > > cures to other countries with have trade
> > > agreements with.
> > >
> > > If Iran wants to fuck over America, fine no
> > cures
> > > for you!
> >
> > You contradict yourself. You speak of a
> > free-market soloution to a real world problem.
> > Cure Cancer. This will be done by very large
> > private corporations. They will be selling the
> > cure, not the government. Very large
> corporations
> > pay virtually no taxes and the government would
> > see crumbs compared to the whole kitty.
>
> Part of the debt problem is that America's value
> is dropping. Overseas investors are not willing
> to invest in the US any more. America just
> doesn't make good products to export. A cancer
> cure would be a good export product, thus more
> money for America.
If an American company cures cancer, they will no longer need investors, they will need buyers. We need the investors now to drive the job market. This is not going to happen.
Once they have the product, It will sell its self and the company will make billions and pay mere millions in taxes, thus no money for America.