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Originally Posted by Mr. Ham
It is an insult for someone to charge someone when they are down on their luck.
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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.