free water for everyone, or should you pay?

[zork]

Should you have to pay for your water? Or is that too capitalistic?The Link

 

[huisache]

glad to hear the UN is on the job; those boys can straighten out anything.

Water is a fundamental human right: Wish I had known that when I was a rural teenager----I hated repairing our water well. If it was a human right, I guess it should just bubble up out of the ground for free. Like the Free Bubble Up and Rainbow Stew Merle Haggard sang about.

Detroit needs to default on its pension obligations to its civil servants rather than just dragging this krapp out forever----the longer it lasts, the less chance there is of re vitalizing the economy there.

Anybody planning on moving to Detroit? You can buy a big house pretty cheap just about anywhere in town. Real Estate prices there compare very favorably with those in Austin, for example, and Detroit is actually very weird and unlike Austin, is not overrun with trash from California.

 

[Mr. Deez]

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[zork]

Hmm, since this is greater Detroit area maybe a consultation with Shar'ia law experts are in order?

 

[Seattle Husker]

Water is limited asset. I pay for city water/sewer now. If I don't then the water gets shutoff. If I don't want pay for city water I need to purchase it from the store. If I don't like that option I can move outside of the city where a well is an option.

 

[Bevo Incognito]

I'd ask you guys the same thing I'd ask Thomas Stephens: do you never tire of thinking in platitudes?

 

[huisache]

ask Stephens and then get back to me with his answer; I will consider his response and rethink whether I want to continue writing in platitudes.

 

[huisache]

This Stephens of whom you speak, would he be the Jesuit missionary or the Welsh apothecary?

 

[Crockett]

It's a sad commentary on humanity, but if the city doesn't cut off your water when you don't pay, lots of folks find something else to do with the money. For what it's worth, water is damned cheap. Wonder if these households are doing without beer, cigarettes, electricity, cable?

I'm pretty soft-hearted, but not completely softheaded.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

So if I decide not to pay my bills it ok because its my right to have a stress free exisistence?

 

[Horn6721]

I watched a network news magazine segment on the problem in Detroit.

There have well over 100,000 people who are delinquent on their water bills. They are asking the feds ( Us) to help.
Should we the taxpayer help them put?

 

[zork]

What is the Libertarian answer to this problem?

 

[zork]

Here they go again. My water, my right? The Link

Free water for everyone? That would be awesome. Surely if some get it free then all should. Or means test it? Pay for your water before your cell phone, cable, or should the city/county/state be prohibited from turning the water off no matter what?

BTW, notice the description of the entity that is trying to enforce:

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[Seattle Husker]

I support the city of Detroit's efforts to force its citizens to pay for the water services they receive.

 

[Musburger]

Water should belong to the commons. That is, it is owned by the public and this should be maintained and paid for by the public. So it's reasonable to expect people to pay for public services.

Capitalism requires private ownership. Rivers, aquifers, lakes, and streams should not be owned by private citizens or corporations. Capitalism has no place with respect to ownership of natural resources such as air and water to be distributed for profit.

 

[zork]

The Link


Bankruptcy judge says, essentially, it is ok to expect payment if you want water. Notice the city is in Bankruptcy due to spending more on everything than they were bringing in by all their methods.

At some point won't the Feds have to pay the piper as well by limiting programs even for the poor? O will the low interest rate games go on in perpetuity?