Friday, June 13, 2008

Death and Taxes

"In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes," wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1789.

B-Daddy here. You may have missed the news that American life expectancy hit a new record high of 78.1 years as of 2006. This continues an inexorable upward trend that has remained unabated since the Bush tax cuts were enacted. No connection, you say? Au contraire, mes amis; in the article it points out that coronary disease, influenza and pneumonia rates of death all dropped. I submit that by leading healthier lifestyles with the increased income available to them, Americans are living longer. So I daresay we let those tax cuts expire at our peril, literally.

1 comment:

Dean said...

Finally.... Some subsidized Government health care we can all get behind.