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Municipal plumbing is a collective concern. I’m happy to chip in my share and expect you to do the same. I’d hope that was part of the cost of water service, bu
by sokoloff 3y ago
Municipal plumbing is a collective concern. I’m happy to chip in my share and expect you to do the same. I’d hope that was part of the cost of water service, but if we need a municipal bond to pay for it, so be it.
I don’t expect you to pay to replace plumbing inside my house nor think that you should expect me to pay for yours, whether that’s in the form of 50% of just your pipes or 0.00005% of 1 million people’s pipes.
- margalabargala 3y agoThere's first order effects like the state of municipal plumbing, and then there's second and third order effects like how widespread lead poisoning will lead to increases in crime a decade or two later. The quality of the society we live in and overall crime levels are a collective concern IMO, and something like this is a great example of a way to adjust that.
- prpl 3y agoBrain and learning development of the population is also a collective concern, otherwise we wouldn’t have public school and IEPs. Banning lead plumbing with subsidies for removal is a collective improvement