Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utai!kramer 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 Article-I.D.: utai.195 Posted: Tue Aug 14 09:32:49 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 14:29:12 EDT References: <741@ubc-ean.CDN> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 26 <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 {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo,uw-beaver}!utcsrgv!utai!kramer