Hits and Misses
Are cigarette taxes too h
igh? HT: Jason Shafrin.
Can you inherit mental illness?
A post at The Incidental Economist defends the malpractice system. Or does it? Someone send them a copy of my Health Affairs piece — which they keep not reading.
Arnold Kling has a fair and balanced discussion of what’s been happening to median income.
“Are cigarette taxes too high?”
Interesting, but it doesn’t seem to make a case about what the right amount of tax for cigarettes is, only that when it is not applied uniformly people will cross district lines seeking cheaper prices.
Food for thought:
Should ‘mentally ill’ people be allowed to have children?
Let’s take a few steps back there, mein fuhrer. They’re still people.
I was impressed by how balanced the treatment of median income was. It raised some good questions and was some healthy food for thought.
“It wouldn’t be such a big deal for diseases to be developing resistance to the antibiotics we have if we were coming up with new antibiotics at a sufficiently quick clip. But — and this is the really scary part — the antibiotics pipeline has slowed down.”
We are being outpaced. Life, uh, finds a way. Hopefully at least.
“Why taking antibiotics you don’t need might kill you.”
This is a good example to me of how wrong Malthusian ideas are. It is not a simple correlation of food and population that determines carrying capacity, but a variety of factors.
Ultimately its still a factor of people dying though.
It really is frightening to read about the whole superbug/overprescribing of antibiotics issue. There has been a lot of it in the news lately, so maybe practices will start to change.
Can you inherit mental illness?
My mother always said… “mental illness runs in families — you catch it from your kids.”
You can’t fix stupid
Are cigarette taxes too high?
I don’t know, but cigar taxes are definitely too high!
Agreed! It’s a tax on good taste!
I had a friend who was a smoker he was shocked to see how available black market cigarettes became after the last tax increase here in Florida. From the title I guessed that was what the first article was about.