Reply #5: Sometimes compassion is best served by letting them learn hard lessons

[Warpy]

because it's the only way they're ever going to learn anything.

Not until their houses burn down or the house next door does and damages their property will they wake up and realize that maybe this man the intrepid individualist stuff aint all it's cracked up to be.

In the meantime, the rest of us need to be protected from their rock headed stupidity, and taxes are the best way to do that.

Modesto would be wise if it started to charge realistic fees to Salida. A farming community might have been worth a little welfare. A city made up of bedroom communities is not.