Capitalism

sonicboom said

I remember walking around the city, and walked into a bar to goto the bathroom. Bartender made me buy a beer. I didn't have a problem with that. Just buy a small item for common courtesy, or if they are busy, just leave a buck or two.

People open up businesses to make money, so they are helping you, help them. I once gave a lady at a fast food chain $20, because I had to use the bathroom really bad. They were to busy for me to order, but it was worth every cent to use their bathroom that day.

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Business owners make money from serving food, beer, wine, or whatever themed-type restaurant whether its a Texas-styled steakhouse, a mid-Atlantic excellent seafood restaurant in DMV, or outstanding, authentic Mexican restaurants with a wide variety of items to make a lot of income and they can do all that without telling me I must pay even a small amount of money to take a sheet.

The whole reasoning behind that, in most cases, is absurd and asinine. If I'm an owner of a profitable restaurant, I'm making more then enough money as it is than to accept cash, even if its voluntary offer, to allow you or anyone else to relieve yourself for a forking fee. You nor anyone else don't have to justify or pay me to use the bathroom.

What's funny is that throughout ancient Roman empire, it wasnt uncommon for Roman governors (procurators), tribunes or military officials to issue taxes once in a while for people to use urinals and in ancient Roman antiquity, you had no privacy in public urinals whether they were off-street, or in Roman bathhouses, saunas, or cauldariums. In fact, during emperor Vespasian's reign, when the Roman Colosseum was first being built and nearly completed before his death, part of the public funds used to pay for its construction came from these "waste taxes".