Every year, every citizen who wants to fund stem cell research gives 5 extra bucks in taxes. If you do this you get placed on a list. If you decide you do not want to fund it because you are a religious nut... fine, don't give the extra 5 bucks, but if you ever get sick with one of the disceases that can get cured after the reseach, then you better pray hard 'cause you are SOL... makes sense?
2006-07-18 12:40:43 · 14 answers · asked by louit4 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
and no trying to fund it after you got the discease either
2006-07-18 12:49:44 · update #1
louit4 for President!
I am all for it, and to many other things that people that do not want to pay taxes for but think should be provided, as in church schools and the like. I do not want to pick on churches but they pay no taxes but sure do reap the benefits.
Then you have the people that can work but, they chose to find any excuse to stay home and live on welfare.
Adult stem cells do not have the regenerative ability that fetal stem cells have.
Stem cells can be retrieved from all the fertilized eggs that invetro clinics throw away.
I see it as a bigger waste to toss the eggs in the trash then to put them to good use on a ailing human being.
I think feeding stray animals at the local land fill with human embryos to be disrespectful and wasteful.
2006-07-18 12:49:10 · answer #1 · answered by Steve 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If there was a better advertising plan there wouldn't be a problem. Embryonic stem cell research is what has everyone all up and arm about. There needs to be clear definition explained and the problems would be gone.
The Non Embryonic stem cell research program would have a much smoother time of it. California has voted in 6 billion to fund research. That's a lot of lettuce. Can you imagine the return this program would get on it investment if it did a more effective campaign.
2006-07-18 12:53:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is similar to the "If you get lung cancer and you smoke you shouldn't get treated" debate. I disagree with what you're saying because I don't think you can put a price on treatment for diseases. What you are suggesting could be described as a type of emotional blackmail, people would be blackmailed into paying the extra 5 bucks, that or maybe die if you contract a disease which, in the way that I think is completely wrong.
So what do I think of your solution? Well technically, politically and financially (only if enough people consent to giving the tax) it could work. But ethically and morally, I find it very wrong.
Even though I have said all of the above, I don't know what the solution to this debate should be, it is just my opinion on the subject.
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2006-07-18 12:53:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing wrong with stem cell research. The problem is where they get them from.
Did you know there are more stem cells available in the umbilical cord of a newborn than in an embryo?
Both sides are wrong in this fight. Stem cell research should be done, but get them from a better source than from killing a child. I'm sure not a single person would have a problem with the research if that were the only place they were retrieved from.
2006-07-18 12:50:05 · answer #4 · answered by scavenger_meat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only problem is that you want to give $5 to the government to pass on to stem cell research, which will be worth about $1.62 after it runs through the bowels of beauracracy. Just donate to the research facility & cut out big government.
Otherwise, great idea.
2006-07-18 12:52:17 · answer #5 · answered by archimedes_crew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm on your side.
But most fundamentalists still wouldn't approve. The way they see it, if they don't like something, it simply shouldn't be.
I'm still trying to figure out who put them in charge. Oh yeah, 49% of the American voters did. We're SCREEEWED.
Folks, adult stem cells are not nearly as promising an endeavor as embryonic. You're comparing fresh apples and rotten apples.
Why do we never hear the Christian right getting up in arms about in vitro fertilization? Countless fertilized eggs are discarded in this practice. Is it hypocrisy or ignorance?
---"archemedes crew" makes a good point.
2006-07-18 12:44:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um, in theory. I would rather support adult stem cell research, then there wouldn't be a moral dilemma.
2006-07-18 12:45:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
o.0
2006-07-18 12:43:51 · answer #8 · answered by Justinfire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd do it for just 5 bucks a year.
Can't go wrong.
2006-07-18 12:43:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A business will not turn down someone willing to pay.
2006-07-18 12:43:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋