Agreed, but this infrastructure has been in place for decades and has been paid for many times over in taxes.
That makes them public property. At a minimum the city should have required the private investors to zero the accounts, instead the income from the sale of the utility goes to bs that isn't even the government's responsibility. On Jul 7, 2014 1:14 PM, "Rick Faircloth" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nothing can be free. Even if the water, itself has no charge, the > infrastructure that > moves it from the ground to the faucet has to be paid for by someone. > > Nothing is ever free. > > > On 7/7/2014 1:08 PM, GMoney wrote: > > It's because they weren't paying, right? > > > > SO what's the solution? Should water access be "free" to all? If so, how? > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Yeah.. I saw that. Hence the suggestion for water bill amnesty. Bad > >> shape when the UN is calling a US city for human rights violations. > >> > >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:05 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> The water company is shutting down service to 40% of the city's > service. > >>> On Jul 7, 2014 1:01 PM, "Maureen" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Isn't Detroit where they are giving away houses to artists if they > >>>> will fix up the house, live there and pay taxes? Seems like water > >>>> bill amnesty, wells and community gardens would be other good item to > >>>> add to that list. > >>>> > >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371246 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
