Nevada Governor to Bill Fossett Widow For Search

sonchat writes with news that Nevada's "Gov. Jim Gibbons intends to bill the widow of missing multimillionaire adventurer Steve Fossett for $687,000 the state spent in searching for the famed aviator last fall, a spokesman said." Though in some places charging for the cost of a search effort is routine, apparently in Nevada it is not.

In other news

[fireman sam]

The US government has decided to send the $3Trillion bill to Iraq for the search and rescue of the weapons of mass destructions (WMDs) even though the lost WMDs were never located.

Re:Have to inform my loved ones

[flaming error]

I could care less how much it costs.

My wife would insist on a preliminary estimate.

Re:Though is some places?

[Greymoon]

We not only find them, we elect them.

Re:Though is some places?

[Cajun Hell]

Now, I put in crazy hours (80-100 hour weeks) and I *earned* that money

There's the problem. The only way we're going to improve the economy, is if people stop producing and working so much. If you work twice as much as a 40-hour-a-week person, you should be punished for it, by paying more tax instead of less.

It's the economy, stupid!

Here's the kicker, though. I spend maybe 1 or 2 days a week in my state, and I spend the rest of the time traveling.

If you can time travel, I'm not surprised you only spend 1 or 2 days out of every week, and have disorienting "crazy hours." On the plus side, you should be able to afford just about any tax at all. Geez, what a whiner. Just take some year-2000 dollars and buy some IBM stock in 1918, and you'll be skeet-shooting the Mona Lis-- oh wait, I misunderparsed your statement. Never mind. Sorry about the taxes.

There. You've been waiting for someone to say it, and I'm saying it: sorry about the taxes.