Editorial - The Costs of Negligence - NYTimes.com

I would call this personal responsibility. Rush and Sean would spin it as just another liberal tax increase.



Editorial - The Costs of Negligence - NYTimes.com: "There has often been an appealing vein of common sense in New Hampshire, and that is true of its regulations for people who venture outdoors. The state has always done what it can to rescue hikers and skiers who get lost or in trouble. Since 1999, it has billed them for the costs of rescue if their behavior was reckless. But in July, the standard was changed. If you find yourself in trouble thanks to your own negligence, a lower threshold of responsibility, then you also may end up paying the cost for being rescued.