$300 Million Could Support Biomedical Research So over three years, Wisconsin property owners reportedly will receive about $300 million or about $36 per owner. Although $300 million dollars is a lot of money, for most of us $36 is chump change. I dont know how you plan to use your $36, but that $300 million could have funded activities that makes sense to just about everyone. That money could have funded translational research on cancer(s), heart and lung diseases, developmental disabilities, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimers disease, arthritis, or pain. Or the money could have funded basic research that importantly informs such research. With my wifes consent, well be funding biomedical research with our $36. But $36 is nowhere near a million dollars let alone $800 million, the amount that could be raised over 20 years, in Jackson County Kansas, via a half-cent sales tax. The proposed tax was on the November 5th ballot. That tax, supported by the business community, was not for a new basketball venue, but for translational biomedical research. So what happened? Eighty-four percent of those voting rejected the proposal. When serious disease strikes a family, even one of enormous wealth, all that money cannot buy a cure or control the disease--without effective treatments. Those treatments, of course, depend on money. So, what are we individually and collectively doing with our money?
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:46:43 +0000
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