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Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video
Author: brains
Date: 07-31-2014 - 10:26

To the person whose sole identity is behind a dollar bill - There are things in this world which completely surpass such considerations as those merely pecuniary and also, didn't your mother teach you that you have to share things sometimes. As social animals, humans tend to need to group together, and taxes are the one way that social behaviour is lubricated, so broaden your outlook. God knows, we all have to pay taxes, mostly of the most regressive sort , sales taxes, which disproportionately fall on the poor, of whose number, I'm guessing, you are not.
So while you're counting, Scrooge McDuck-like, your pile, remember Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' dictum,"I don't mind paying taxes; with them I buy civilization!"
The people on that bridge surely couldn't have incurred YOU any costs and even had they excited more expense, the emergency services have things called budgets which anticipate eventualities; indeed that is why we're here in the first place. So, drop this idee fixe with peoples foibles and your purse alone. We all have to take up each other's slack, viz. the annual summer wildfire season.

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  Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video WebDigger 07-30-2014 - 16:31
  Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video Carol L. Voss 07-30-2014 - 17:07
  Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video Chuck in Wallowa County 07-30-2014 - 18:53
  Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video Craig Tambo 07-30-2014 - 22:08
  Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video HUTCH 7.62 07-30-2014 - 23:25
  Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video Taxpayer 07-31-2014 - 07:58
  Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video brains 07-31-2014 - 10:26
  Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video E 08-02-2014 - 10:34
  Re: Indiana rail trespassers...Clowns on Bridges. We had them too! Chris Walker 08-02-2014 - 15:54
  Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video More brains than Brains 08-05-2014 - 11:36


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