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Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video
Author: E
Date: 08-02-2014 - 10:34

brains Wrote:
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> 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.

Ummm....where does that budget money come from?

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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
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  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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