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[–] TestForScience 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Here's a fun little bit of trivia for you:
If you live in town, you have to pay a runoff tax, which is literally a tax on the rain that falls onto your property, then runs off into the government-owned street.
So, apparently, rainwater switches owners a few times during its short descent to the ground.

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[–] Not_C 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

The government has tax breaks to keep mom and pop businesses alive. Those same tax breaks are exploited by companies like Amazon so they can make $11.2 billion in profits and pay no taxes.

Then there's the other side of the coin. There are laws that prevent large corporations from monopolising the water supply. Those same laws prevent regular people from collecting a bucket of rainwater.

Either a mom and pop shop get a $10k per year tax break, and Amazon get a $10 billion per year tax break. Or no one gets a tax break.

Either you get a bucket of rain water and a large corporation gets a huge lake. Or no one gets water.

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[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Then there's the other side of the coin. There are laws that prevent large corporations from monopolising the water supply. Those same laws prevent regular people from collecting a bucket of rainwater.

It gets worse. By the nature of representative democracy those laws will most likely be written by current or former employees of said corporation.

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[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

or you can make it so that the laws work the way they're supposed to. proper government is possible.

No. Massively centralised governments cannot gather enough information to make those laws without becoming corrupt in the process.

things currently aren't working because every politician is either jewish or bribed by jews, not because of some inherent flaw in human heirarchy and governance.

Democracy and bribery are not separate phenomena. They are integrally linked.

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[–] Wooden_door 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

So if it doesnt water on your crops, they're withholding the rain?

So the government is taking responsibility for global warming I take it.

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[–] acheron2012 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

There is no such thing as "a little government". This is a marvelous black pill. For every time morality wins in America today evil wins 10,000 times.

While there is life there is always the possibility of turning things around. But stories like this show how very very far away that goal is.

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[–] R34p_Th3_Wh0r1w1nd 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Ok I stopped reading at Oregon.

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[–] FlyinToadstar 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The owner should designate the pond area as a dry storage silo and then charge the government daily rental and/or for drainage costs associated with "their" water intrusion. If the government isn't wiling to move their water off-site it seems a fourth amendment violation and unreasonable government intrusion onto private property.

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[–] cthulian_axioms 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The proper response in this scenario is to drown the government official who ordered the destruction of the water supply. I GOT YER FUCKIN' WATER RIGHT HERE

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[–] Grunge 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I posted something like this on my little sub v/ifitpleasesthecrown

https://files.catbox.moe/hkr270.jpg

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