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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
sure. just like a toll road. user pays. i think that's very fair. if i want the convenience of the road and a faster way to get from point a to b... then i should be paying for it. a blind quadrapalegic who lives 5 counties away should not be paying for it.
if you want to live on cheese burgers and cocaine... be my guest. but don't ask me to pay for it when you end up in the cardiac center
you want to fuck your life up... I am all for that! 100% ... you're choice. Blow your head off... drive your car off a bridge... die climbing Mount Everest... just don't ask me to pay the consequences for your decisions. Climb mount everest? fine! put up the 1-2-3 million dollars that will be spent on the search and rescue mission BEFORE you climb... or fuck you,... you'll freeze to death until your family raises the money to pay for your dumb actions.
i think everyone should pay a proportionate share of the financial consequences to others for their actions.
going further, i would limit lawsuits in medicine and require users to pay attorney fees if they lose.
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I agree. This last winter there were two pretty big search and rescues at a mountain near where I live. They spent a lot of money finding these lost people and in both cases they had trouble because the people didn't spend the extra $140 to get an emergency device that would transmit their location if activated. If they had that device they would have been found in a matter of hours not days. Instead they ran up thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, in costs to find them.
I have also long been a supporter of sin taxes as long as the money goes towards something good and can't be shifted away. My state (like many others) has long had trouble funding the schools. So about 20 years ago they started up a statewide lottery. They sold it as being a solution for schools and most of the money raised by the lottery would go to the schools. I guess at first it did, then they started shifting it away to other things. Now next to none of it goes to the schools and the schools are right back having the same funding issues.
If someone wants to drink some vodka, no problem (I'm sometimes one of those people) it won't kill them to pay an extra 50 cents a bottle. If someone wants to eat ice cream and cookies, let them, but it will cost then a little more money. If the money that was raised by these taxes went towards paying for health care it could greatly offset the cost.