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To: BMiles2112

“Sure it is, as is buying a car that gets 8 mpg”


That isn’t hurting government infrastructure, but the government does justifiably put limits on the weight that you put on the roads.

Plumbing is very much a regulated business and industry and has been for many centuries.


58 posted on 11/25/2008 10:06:22 AM PST by ansel12 ( When a conservative pundit mocks Wasilla, he's mocking conservatism as it's actually lived.)
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To: ansel12
but the government does justifiably put limits on the weight that you put on the roads.
This is a limit on individual vehicles due to the disproportionate amount of damage that a single heavy vehicle can do to the roads. If individual flushes put a similar strain on the sewer system, you'd have a point. They don't. The reason for it was to lower the overall amount of water being pushed through the system. If a municipal system is strained by increasing demands forcing infrastructure improvements, the price/gallon of water should reflect these costs.

The fact that government has imposed itself into areas where it does not belong does not make it right.

59 posted on 11/25/2008 10:28:35 AM PST by BMiles2112
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