ATRA: Kerry-Edwards Victory Will Raise Tort Tax

July 6, 2004

  • July 7, 2004 at 2:45 am
    Ted Pappas says:
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    What I find interesting, is that the problem is tort reform (limit juries)and not the wrong doers. Juries award too much, the innocent parties are the DR.’s that kill, scar and mame; the polluters who poison; the manufaturers of poor products. If an award is out of line, the judge has some authority, but he won’t use it. Why is some Govenment introvention desireable and not other. Who pays for all this reform. We are in the insurance business, we know the rules and they have not changed all that much. We should be looking to change behavior and not the legal system.

  • July 7, 2004 at 2:45 am
    alfaron says:
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    Criticism pointed at Edwards for: Accepting money from other attorneys, voting against tort reform, and ignoring the people, is fallacious and typical of the hypocrisy that supporters of an administration that even pales the Teapot Dome Scandal of the Harding era. First: The say that people who have been injured by the actions of corporations that affect their health and well-being, limiting the damages that may collectedto an amount that is a pittance, and a write-off of their taxes, to the wrongdoers, is an unconscionable mistatement of fact. To a person who’s father died from exposure to asbestos, and who never smoked in his life, and who’s family was deprived of his support and comfort, is criminal irresponsibility. That the responsible parties can hide behind bankruptcy laws and smoke screens created by a parade of corporate defense attorneys, is unconcionable. Second: Your efforts to paint the man with a brush that is soiled with the payoffs to Halliburton, Enron, drug companies, and a score of cronie-corporations, is a painfully clear attempt to reach for straws that have already injured the economy greatly, cost millions of people jobs and retirement savings, is clear disregard for the public and doesn’t hold a candle to the damages gained by tort lawyers. You should not be just ashamed, you should look in the mirror and try to find your own image of responsibility.

  • July 7, 2004 at 3:04 am
    Reagan says:
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    Alfaron: Please remove your Communist being from this country and move to Cuba, the only last remaining bastion of your faith. You, Hillary clinton, Tim Robbins adn the rest of yourlot should be very happy under Castro’s rule. People like you think it is ok to tax the living out of us hardworking American’s and resdistribute it to the lazy, shiftless liabilities on society. It’s funny how those people seem to generate more lawsuits as well. Take your Tea pot and get out, Marxist!

  • July 7, 2004 at 3:16 am
    Art Vandelay says:
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    It’s people like Alafron who have allowed Democrats throughout the years to desicrate the Presidential office with immoral scandals while hiding the truth that any growth experienced while a liberal elected official is in office is due to the prior conservative’s economic plan. Were you there with your other fellow Democrats protesting the funeral of one of the greatest presidents ever last month? Government is to protect the people, not provide a socialized services (it worked real well in what used to be Russia, eh?). I’m tired of hearing how Bush only helps big business because, whether you like it or not, Kerry and his new boy toy are of the same socio-economic status and wants to protect their highest donating PAC’s as well. Go spout your rhetoric at the Democratic National Convention because you are outnumbered here.

  • July 7, 2004 at 4:30 am
    Landsnark says:
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    Mr. Clippinger:

    I think your knee might have jerked right into your head.

  • July 7, 2004 at 4:39 am
    P. Improta says:
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    If Kerry/Edwards is the personification of the collective ideology of the Democratic Party, Alfaron and his ilk ought to do the rest of us a favor – take his pals Kerry & Edwards, along with Michael Moore, Al Franken, MoveOn.org, George Soros and the rest of the Hate America First crowd and all move to France.

    Kerry/Edwards, a marriage made in a limousine. Two characters that have lived like typical Liberals: They live off of other people. In the case of Kerry, his father off of the federal government, sending his spoiled son to high-brow prep schools and Yale; Then Kerry, a gigolo marrying money. (Senator Heinz, a Republican must be doing somersaults in his grave!) And Edwards, exploiting victims through the court system for his cut.

    Mr. Kerry, worth over $1 Billion, his fortune doubling during Bush’s tenure; and Edwards, worth an estimated $70 million dollars – how can they even relate?

    Bill Clinton was fond of telling people he “felt their pain”. With a $35,000 annual salary as Governor of Arkansas, I believed him. Kerry is immune to your pain. If he had pain, he’d hire someone to feel it for him. 6 mansions, a $1.5 million Hinckley Motoryacht, a jet – I wish I was in as much pain as he.

    So let’s blame “corporations” (I’m sure he is employed by some sort of company, unless he is a ward of the public working in government or a university) for all mof the woes of society. Forget the people are responsible for themselves, including bettering their lot in life. et’s all blame other people for those that aspire beyond mediocrity perpetuated by unions, and be surprised when enterprising foreigners assume the market because of inadaptibility.

    Being enterprising is a Republican virtue; being opportunistic is a Democrat trait. The road to ruin is paved in Blue.

  • July 7, 2004 at 5:13 am
    C Thun says:
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    I mistakenly read this article and the attendant comments believing that there would be a professional assessment of the issue. What is most interesting about this site is the lack of objectivity in both. Support who you want in the election, but to write as if the Republicans are dispassionate, with no skeletons or questionable supporters to boot, is sophmoric. Also, the article makes no attempt to inform the reader who funds the American Tort Reform Association and why it’s highly politicized actions and opinions can be assumed to be the final say on the matter. You guys can continue in your catfight – I’ll try to find some intelligent discourse to peruse, somewhere else.

  • July 7, 2004 at 5:18 am
    just me says:
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    Before you start trashing all of the Dem. out there, go see Farenhiet 9/11. See what the Rep. voted in.

  • July 7, 2004 at 5:25 am
    poco says:
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    Hey Alfanon,

    Haven’t you heard the recent reports? The economy is stronger than it’s ever been, even stronger than it was under Gingrich! (you know the time when that diversion – the accidental occupant inhabited the oval office.)

    Enron, Halliburton, “corporations”. (Who are your clients? Your communist commrades have no need for insurance. You are what the Stalinists termed a “useful idiot”.

  • July 7, 2004 at 5:32 am
    Just us says:
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    Hey “Just Me” –

    Another useful idiot! Have you nothing else to say in defense of your out-of-touch party but to voluntarily be Michael Moore’s promoter? Leni Reifenstahl and Josef Goebbels would be proud! Just be glad your boy Al wasn’t in office instead. You should see it as a blessing. That boy would’ve pooped his pants repeatedly, and you dems would have been ranking lower than the Green Party.



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