SHOULD WATER BE FREE?
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[Does. Not. Compute. CATO what do I say?] 
[Does. Not. Compute. CATO what do I say?]
Your argument states that air and water are different w/r/t property rights, however the reasoning you give isn't a fundamental difference, but an accidental one.
Any sources to back this up? Are companies really making "undrinkable" water drinkable?
godkiller
"We are the Fury"
Assume that oxygen couldn't be readily consumed immediately, yet was imperative to life anyway, similar to water. I doubt you'd say oxygen should cost anything. Since water is so necessary for humans to survive and otherwise freely available before incorporation, a basic and salubrious form should be free for all. Anything more, like spring water, a person should have the right to sell. But if water should ever become scarce, said spring water should then become free. Everything shouldn't be sold simply because markets are involved.
Key words being "isnt always"...
if you're suggesting that it is always drinkable, I'll glad provide a source of undrinkable water, that must be purified.
I wouldn't think it should be free... and from my understanding oxygen isnt nearly as scarce as fresh drinking water.
Making it a bad comparison IMO when debating cost.
Key words being "isnt always"...
if you're suggesting that it is always drinkable, I'll glad provide a source of undrinkable water, that must be purified.
Not suggesting that at all, just curious how many of these companies are actually providing the service of "purifying" undrinkable water as opposed to just repackaging perfectly fine water.
a man of the people
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Didn't realize I was arguing with a market anarchist.and this is a big problem, which some states are repairing
not only does this teach the homeowner a valuable lesson about self reliance and fiscal responsibility but it also stimulates the economy as he will have to get a loan and hire people to rebuild the house.
technically I don't need traffic lights and each man should decide for himself when he should stop his own car, Your oppressive big government tendencies are showing friend! BUT in any case through the thievery of my money as tax, these lights were already paid for
who needs libraries? kids can access all the information they need on the web for free on their phones or they can just learn from nature, instead of having to be brainwashed at your institutionally run "libraries", the tax (theft) money used for libraries should go to subsidy companies so they can afford to create more jobs
water should be privatized, this will create jobs and improve the economy
We don't need big government telling us how to use water, let people make businesses out of the water supply so we can grow the economy
free your mind breh
I seriously doubt I can persuade someone who thinks that if you're poor you should die of thirst and your house should burn down that they're wrong, I've encounter such dogmatic thinking before and it's always entrenched as hell.
But if you're advocating such radical changes the US (and those are all radical changes to the way the US works) you don't get to wave your OMG COMMUNIST RUSSIA flag, the US has been doing those things well before the USSR was formed.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
oh, dear...
I have a plenty to say on the issue...
sigh, maybe tomorrow, but you're dealing one hand to a set of people and another to another... ehh it needs a little work
property rights need to be respected but if you're raking in more than 300k a year on said property or it's specifically for water in some shape they need to catch a extra levy.
I have a plenty to say on the issue...
sigh, maybe tomorrow, but you're dealing one hand to a set of people and another to another... ehh it needs a little work
property rights need to be respected but if you're raking in more than 300k a year on said property or it's specifically for water in some shape they need to catch a extra levy.
If we can subsidize Wall Street with trillions of dollars of tax money, then we can subsidize water for people.
If we can spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the defense budget terrorizing these foreign countries, we can spend that money on making water free and accessible for people.
And we could literally achieve this through collective action if we started writing our own legislation like the corporations do.
We can't forget through collective action we control the politicians and therefore the policies and therefore the distribution of our trillions of tax dollars. The politicians are playing with OUR chips.
Edit: Just viewed the results of the poll...
to the overwhelming majority of righteous HL bredren who voted free water for the people 
If we can spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the defense budget terrorizing these foreign countries, we can spend that money on making water free and accessible for people.
And we could literally achieve this through collective action if we started writing our own legislation like the corporations do.
We can't forget through collective action we control the politicians and therefore the policies and therefore the distribution of our trillions of tax dollars. The politicians are playing with OUR chips.
Edit: Just viewed the results of the poll...
to the overwhelming majority of righteous HL bredren who voted free water for the people