This poster believes the choice to make the hull out of carbon fibre is what led to its failure:
My point is clear: If you wish to deny government funds to preventable expenses, then YOU , ME, EVERYONE are benefitting at some level from SOME things we do that cause an expense for everyone else that THEY DO NOT incur for themselves.Maybe…but then where are all the government services for that boat of 500 migrants that sank in the Mediterranean?
And, as far as “taxpayers” go,, do these billionaires even pay any taxes? Or are the rest of us picking up the tab for their arrogant thrill-seeking?
What taxes? What goverment services?Maybe…but then where are all the government services for that boat of 500 migrants that sank in the Mediterranean?
And, as far as “taxpayers” go,, do these billionaires even pay any taxes? Or are the rest of us picking up the tab for their arrogant thrill-seeking?
They pay ENORMOUS amounts of tax.When a boat full of migrants sink it only gets a minute of coverage.
Lets look at the tax code and see how much taxes the top 1% pay compared to the working class.
What is your point? What is the point I am making, have you read what I wrote? Some people have in mind what they want to say, and barely glance at what they are actually responding to.Should tax payers also not pay for physically handicapped children because their mothers were smokers or addicts?
Think about what you are saying.
Both of you make PRECISELY the point I am making.Amazing how we pay for emergency services with our taxes and now folks want to strip folks from getting help from the very same emergency services we pay for. I guess the next time one gets into a car accident, pay for it out of pocket for fire, police and ambulance. Hey, if you didn't get into the car and drive, it wouldn't have happened. LOL
What about smoking?Could be easily defined.
1. 8 hours if free search x 2 personal.
2. Any activity off the ground or beneath the water surface more than 50ft.
3. Unnecessary endangerment of rescue personnel.
4. Any above ground activity with a excursion company is covered.
A person who gets trampled while riding an elephant is easily found.
A person gored on a safari is easily found.
A skydiver is easily located most times.
A boat sinking can be radiod in and easily found.
EXTREMELY BORING AND UNFUNNYWhat if some of of the dead happened to be Putin's fans?
What about smokers and obese people?There is precedence for municipalities recovering the cost of rescue services. The most famous and most common is rescuing people off the ice on Lake Simcoe. I don’t think it’s generally a hefty hit, but do seem to recall a bill for $20,000 somewhere.
why?
Because venturing onto the ice when conditions are known to be unsafe. Puts responders lives at risk, and cost a bunch of $$. Money that comes out the municipalities budgets. Basically a lot of tourist every year, require police, fire, EMS, but don’t pay taxes in the Muni.
I think ( not sure) people that have gone skiing/boarding when snowpack is also known to be unsafe……
Will they go after the estates? Owner of the company? Doubt it, but they should.
What do you say about obesity and smoking|?As far as we might be concerned? I’d suggest anytime authorities advise the public not to do X because conditions are unsafe.
Don’t go on ice when it’s unsafe.
Don’t snowboard when there’s avalanche risk.
Don’t venture into flood/fire zones
Don’t swim at X beach. Rip tides
Etc and so on.
Nonsense, the rich pay a monstrous proportion of total tax.As a % billionaires don't pay as much as they should. They have access to tools and techniques even most others in the top of the income brackets don't.
He financed the Republican party....He was a RINO which is the same as a democrat. Donald Trump was and still is in consultation with Boeing designing something unlike that loser who claimed his POS was in consultation with Boeing.
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This comment is meaningless.That's harsh but yet exactly like I feel.
Much more could have been done with 250k to help the ones in needs. Would have made them feel proud. And be alive.
PROOFLet me rephrase.
They don't pay the % of THEIR income in taxes, that they should be paying, because they have access to tools that most others do not.
So if they did pay the % of their income that they should be paying, who knows, they would probably be paying like 75% of total taxes. Like it should be.
Right? Saw this video, plus this frame of reference for how far down they were actually going in that contraption:This has to be a joke.
You are going down almost 4 kilometers under the sea in a contraption controlled with play station controller?
At that depth, the pressure I heard from an expert was the equivalent of a 111 story building made of lead.Right? Saw this video, plus this frame of reference for how far down they were actually going in that contraption:
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Those boys never stood a chance of getting back to the surface if something went wrong. As an aside, “more people have been to outer space than to that depth of the ocean” . That fact alone should’ve been a deterrent to go on this adventure