Particular care is taken to research, record, and monitor children who are disabled and injured by pesticides. PACE urges the establishment of pesticide manufacturer funded alternate housing, household goods, and schooling, provision of medical care, and financial support for injured, disabled, dispossessed and homeless pesticide victims while they await the lengthy judicial process. PACE recommends that funds for these emergency provisions be provided by a use tax on pesticides. This fund would serve as interim support for victims and a manufacturer incentive to settle suits fairly and expeditiously in order to keep use taxes at their lowest. Use taxes on pesticides would have the added benefit of reducing pesticide use as recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Pesticides are responsible for a significant portion of people disabled by chemical poisoning.
These disabilities often result in severe reactions to very low levels of many chemicals. Public taxes are used to provide sanctuaries for any number of threatened animals. Public taxes should also be used to provide sanctuaries for children and others disabled by chemical poisoning as a result of dangerous products that should never have been on the market. The chemically poisoned are constantly threatened by the modern world's ubiquitous use of chemicals. Tax funded least toxic housing in environmentally pristine sanctuary areas within Federal Forest Lands are needed for persons disabled by chemical poisoning.