South Africa, which had three large private game preserves ten years ago now has 25 large ones and many smaller game-ranching enterprises. Namibia, Mozambique and Zambia among others are also undergoing similar free-market transformations. A study by Cato Institute researchers Dean Stansel and Stephen Moore once again confirms that tax cuts lead to healthier budget balances. The two compared the performance of ten states which raised taxes between 1990 and 1996 with ten which decreased them. Specifically, EPA says that people living in the most polluted areas of the country had a 17 percent higher death rate than those living in the cleanest area.
Experts point to a number of fallacies in the argument.
EPA researchers guessed, rather than measured, how much air pollution study subjects were exposed to. No one, including the EPA, has yet demonstrated how airborne particles could cause higher death rates. Most Americans say the state should not interfere. Forty percent said that in such a position they would consider suicide themselves. Most states consider it a crime to assist another person to commit suicide.