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From: kramer@utai.UUCP (Bryan M. Kramer)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: First Chance Program and other Ramblings (Taxing Water)
Message-ID: <195@utai.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 09:32:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 09:32:49 1984
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<741@ubc-ean.CDN>:" ... make as much sense
as taxing water"

Actually it would make very good sense to tax water:
	
	a) it is a scarce resource and getting scarcer: water tables
	   are shrinking, lakes are getting polluted etc.
	b) money to purify it is very scarce so we don't get
	   the best water
	c) it costs a lot to supply water to industry, a cost that
	   they do not have to figure in their investment
	d) it costs even more to process waste water.  Again there
	   seems to be no money available to do so.  This has a
	   very strong effect on a)

Clearly water should cost everyone a lot more.
-- 

 Bryan M. Kramer
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Toronto
 Toronto, ON
 M5S 1A4

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