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mindboggled725today at 12:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

I am absolutely mindboggled by the dellusional opinion that you can choose to settle down wherever you want in the US and taxpayers will be forced to provide you with clean drinking water.


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tonyhart7today at 2:25 PM

and what's wrong with that ????

safe to drink water available for free is great

UncleMeattoday at 12:35 PM

That’s not what the outcome of this case would be if it went in the other direction.

In this case the state told the people that the water it was already providing was safe, when in fact it was contaminated with lead. This case was about a 1983 suit for state officials knowingly violating a constitutional right.

Few constitutional rights create affirmative responsibility for the state to provide for them. Pretty much just public defenders.