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2002-01-04

Friday, January 04, 2002 9:21 PM
Victim Compensation Fund

To whom it may concern,
I do not agree with the idea that families compensations for the deaths of
their family members in the 9/11/01 tragedy should be tied directly to their
income at the time of their death. This is a simplistic model that assumes
that these victims would always be what they were at the time of their
death. A high income bond trader could have lost his/her job while a lower
income service worker might have pursued further education and acquired a
higher paying job. Since these eventualities are unknown, and unknowable, I
think the victims families should be compensated equally.
These are tax-payers dollars being administered, not an insurance
company's. I'm not sure most American's would agree with an unequal
distribution of these funds based wholly on income level at the time of
death.
I suggest that the families should be compensated equally; from what I've
read, that is approximately 1.6 million dollars per family. It's fair.
It's just. It's easily explained.

Individual Comment
Eugene, OR

2002-01-04