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Old 09-02-2014, 03:58 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Mr. Ham View Post
It is an insult for someone to charge someone when they are down on their luck.
Being down on one's luck excuses freeloading, you think? Makes freeloading a moral right? But there are many whose only life skills are an uncanny ability to get down on their luck. Somehow I doubt you like those people any more than you claim to like most radio hams.

Some hospitals charge just enough to reduce the filling-up of the parking lots, so that there will be a place for people to park when they've got to. Typically they charge just a little more than the cost of maintenance and personnel to keep the parking lot usable.

Others, no doubt, make it a profit center. Why not? It costs money to build parking lots, and if you just don't want to pay your share you can take a taxi.

But no one -- not even a hospital -- is morally bound to provide free parking, or free anything else, at his own expense.
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