[–] Wooden_door 0 points 1 point 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.
[–] acheron2012 0 points 1 point 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.
[–] dundundunnnnn ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBWa6CD1lBw
The first 2.5 minutes of this video explain how the government plans to charge for every single natural thing, to include beneficial insects.
[–] voatusernamevoat ago (edited ago)
Fucked up shit going on in Texas but banning the collecting of rain water isn't one of them, don't need a permit either.
[–] Not_C 1 point 1 point 2 points (+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 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
No. Massively centralised governments cannot gather enough information to make those laws without becoming corrupt in the process.
Democracy and bribery are not separate phenomena. They are integrally linked.
[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It gets worse. By the nature of representative democracy those laws will most likely be written by current or former employees of said corporation.