AB GENERAL 7 RE HI SPEED PASSENGER RAIL FROM EDMONTON TO CALGARY
From: "I P Nightly" (ipnightly@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Hi Speed Passenger Rail From Edmonton To Calgary
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:24:04 -0600


"Edward Bear" <winbear3d6@no-spam> wrote in message news:3EF09D18.4010100@no-spam > John Fleming wrote:
> > I think you have an awefully niaive view of the willingness of > > people to pull their own weight.
>
> Actually, I don't, I'd expect to see many things fall into disrepair,
> until people once again learned how be responsible.

You'll be waiting until Hell freezes over.

> >>$> And if you neighbour chose not to donate to the Calgary police > >>$> department.. would they investigate a break and enter on their > >>$> premises?
> >>$
> >>$I would hope so, it is their duty to after all. Hopefully that would > >>$help convince your neighbor of their worth though and (s)he would be > >>$more forth coming with a donation.
> >
> > I think that is wishful thinking. If anything, about the last > > organization a lawbreaker would want to do is contribute funding > > for police services.
>
> ??? Your neighbor is now a lawbreaker[1]? What they broke and entered > their own house? As I said lawbreakers could be forced to pay for police > services through the courts.
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> > You need to come up with a better idea.
>
> Why? because you make a blanket statement after not even trying to > seriously answer my post? Try again John.
>
> You asked how services could be paid for without Taxation, and I > presented a bunch of ways, you then only responded to the softball > parts, while completely ignoring the rest of the post.
>
> [1] Which I could believe due to the shear weight of law in this > country, but that is a different topic.
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