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Environment & Energy

hunter

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6. This is an incredibly common story.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sat Jun 26, 2021, 12:08 PM

Jun 2021

Wealthy people flood into a place but getting them to pay for necessary infrastructure upgrades is damned near impossible. They'd rather hire expensive lawyers to obfuscate and obstruct than pay taxes for sewer upgrades and the like.

In any community like this there are people who are wealthy because they've contributed to human progress and are willing to pay their fair share towards the common good, and then there are people who got wealthy by being assholes or as the spoiled children of assholes.

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Wealthy New Yorkers Fled To The Hamptons In 2020; This Pushed Aging Septic Systems Into Collapse [View all] hatrack Jun 2021 OP

I get a kick when they write "this has been an ongoing problem" jimfields33 Jun 2021 #1

"it has to overwhelm to do anything?" I see it as people not wanting to pay the taxes to fund mitch96 Jun 2021 #2

Yes, much more important to upgrade the helipad than take care of your shit . . . hatrack Jun 2021 #3

Just a hunch, but I imagine the wealthy New Yorkers with their second homes thucythucy Jun 2021 #4

Anti-taxers fouling their own nest and up next, they will blame the poor. ShazamIam Jun 2021 #5

This is an incredibly common story. hunter Jun 2021 #6

So now the rich can wallow in their own shite. Midnight Writer Jun 2021 #7

I laughed when I saw the headline. Mickju Jun 2021 #8