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ProfessorGAC

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6. I Tend To Agree With Byers

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jun 22, 2023, 02:26 PM

Jun 2023

It's mostly a sunk cost, because all those people & equipment are there "just in case".
I don't want to think like TFG who dismantled the virology monitoring team in China because "We can't be paying people just in case something happens."
That said, if it's anything other than a freak, unforeseeable accident, the company should be culpable for some portion of the cost.

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Search for sub could cost taxpayers millions of dollars [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 OP

Just think of it as a training exercise. Hassin Bin Sober Jun 2023 #1

Wait - cilla4progress Jun 2023 #2

Preliminary reports suggest that they won't be in a position to write any checks. nt Buns_of_Fire Jun 2023 #4

Send an invoice to the estates of the two dead billionaires. With interest. JohnQFunk Jun 2023 #3

If company is negligent (which they likely were), they should have to pay JT45242 Jun 2023 #5

I Tend To Agree With Byers ProfessorGAC Jun 2023 #6

Maybe I'm a little naive, but aren't rescue missions like this one of the reasons we pay taxes Arkansas Granny Jun 2023 #7

That's my thought as well. thucythucy Jun 2023 #8

Yeah, WE pay taxes. Billionaires don't. Aristus Jun 2023 #10

its one thing if its in US waters moonshinegnomie Jun 2023 #11

"Billionaires' junket costs taxpayers millions" misanthrope Jun 2023 #9