> Unmetered water/sewage access is not popular with taxpayers and likely would be a regressive tax in favor of wealthy/corps. And is already extremely rare. Ho

> Unmetered water/sewage access is not popular with taxpayers and likely would be a regressive tax in favor of wealthy/corps. And is already extremely rare. However, what you are advocating for is retrofitting these systems in order to support your pay-for-shit plan. > Your issue here is not with our sewers but that you've failed to control externalities of your businesses. You are missing the point. The issue is that this system you want to move to will be built upon a system that uses taxation to fund infrastructure. Your assertion that this is a better system falls apart if you don't use any infrastructure that was funded by tax money. In other words, if everything was taxed at use from the get-go, your septic tank would _not_ cost $5k. It would be much more expensive as the costs of building/maintaining all the things we currently have would be built directly into the septic system cost instead of from tax revenue largely pulled from the wealthy. > Many taxpayers can't either. Yet you want to force them to when even you won't do it! This is so disingenuous as to border on lying. What you're saying is that everyone, even the desperately poor, need pay for anything they use so that you don't have to help anyone. What I'm saying is that progressive taxation is the way to pay for public goods so the poor are spared burdens the rest of us can handle. > I've said exactly what I've said. Indeed, and it's the typical nonsense said by libertarians who benefit from public funds and are too ignorant or simply refuse to recognize it. So self centered that they can't even recognize the massive disparity between how little they pay in taxes and how much more they receive when compared to people who live in large cities. > if you could just steal enough money from others There it is! "Taxation is theft". You live in a republic, suck it up, and enjoy the sewage system you were able to personally fund on the backs of everyone else.