Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ada-uts.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!ada-uts!az From: az@ada-uts.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Seat belt laws Message-ID: <18100019@ada-uts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 19:59:00 EST Article-I.D.: ada-uts.18100019 Posted: Thu Jan 2 19:59:00 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jan-86 22:14:23 EST References: <289@gargoyle.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:gargoyle:-28900:ada-uts:18100019:000:494 Nf-From: ada-uts!az Jan 2 19:59:00 1986 > These are the costs borne by state taxpayers; they include: lost > state taxes (by far the largest cost in the case of fatalities and > permanent disabilities), ... If I were a state legislator, I certainly would make everything possible to prevent people from leaving the state for the same reason - lost taxes. The same of course has to be done on the federal level - trips abroad should be tightly controlled to avoid defection, which is as costly as a fatal accident. Alex Zatsman.