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> Is it so wrong to ask Nestle to at least pay the same rate you and I and every other citizen pays for water? Why can't they pay municipal rates for municipal

> Is it so wrong to ask Nestle to at least pay the same rate you and I and every other citizen pays for water? Why can't they pay municipal rates for municipal water, like Coca-Cola and all the beer breweries do. Yes, it is unreasonable, unless Nestle taps into municipal supply like all other municipal customers.

andrepd 9y ago
It's absolutely fascinating to me how corporations can have so many tireless defenders of their rights. I wonder if you would feel as strongly about citizens being poisoned as you do about corporations being made to reasonably compensate the state for the natural resources they use to line their pockets.
- notyourday 9y ago
  > It's absolutely fascinating to me how corporations can have so many tireless defenders of their rights. This specific corporation happen not to be a customer of a municipal water system, which means that that this specific municipal water system does not get to charge it. Let me convert it into a non-abstract thing - I'm going to make an educated guess that you drink either coffee or tea. Why are you not paying for coffee or tea that you got from a place A to a municipal cafeteria that exists in the place A municipality even though you are not getting your coffee or tea there? > I wonder if you would feel as strongly about citizens being poisoned as you do about corporations being made to reasonably compensate the state for the natural resources they use to line their pockets. The citizens were being poisoned because the democratically elected, pro people, anti-corporation government decided that people of Flint, MI, did not need super clean water that much.
- jandrese 9y ago
  I'm no corporate apologist, but I have trouble seeing how Nestle should pay the people who aren't supplying their water for the water they use. On the other hand, if Nestle did bottle Flint tap water in their product you can be the crisis would have never happened. They would own that municipal water department in all but name.

andrepd 9y ago

It's absolutely fascinating to me how corporations can have so many tireless defenders of their rights. I wonder if you would feel as strongly about citizens being poisoned as you do about corporations being made to reasonably compensate the state for the natural resources they use to line their pockets.

notyourday 9y ago
> It's absolutely fascinating to me how corporations can have so many tireless defenders of their rights. This specific corporation happen not to be a customer of a municipal water system, which means that that this specific municipal water system does not get to charge it. Let me convert it into a non-abstract thing - I'm going to make an educated guess that you drink either coffee or tea. Why are you not paying for coffee or tea that you got from a place A to a municipal cafeteria that exists in the place A municipality even though you are not getting your coffee or tea there? > I wonder if you would feel as strongly about citizens being poisoned as you do about corporations being made to reasonably compensate the state for the natural resources they use to line their pockets. The citizens were being poisoned because the democratically elected, pro people, anti-corporation government decided that people of Flint, MI, did not need super clean water that much.
jandrese 9y ago
I'm no corporate apologist, but I have trouble seeing how Nestle should pay the people who aren't supplying their water for the water they use. On the other hand, if Nestle did bottle Flint tap water in their product you can be the crisis would have never happened. They would own that municipal water department in all but name.