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  • kungentoComic Strips@lemmy.worldSafe Water
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    12 days ago

    Aren’t the budgets based on the tax income for the districts? Wealthier people tend to be white, and wealthier people have more alternatives on where to live… so why would they choose to live somewhere without clean water, just to save a bit of money?

    It’s still the same answer in the end… but it’s not like some councilman is saying “those blacks won’t be getting clean water as long as I’m in charge”, no? I’d imagine that neighborhoods filled with poverty-whites would also have bad water quality.


  • the blank cheques being handed out wastefully

    What blank cheques exactly?

    And I’m not sure how you do it down in oz, but in most other countries, the government creates budgets for each agency, and those agencies then decide how to allocate their funds. If the government thinks that some agency is wasting too much money, they reduce their budget. There’s not supposed to be a king who decides all that on a whim.

    And how many “blank cheques” to the defense industry have been investigated? Surprise, because it’s not about cutting “wasteful spending”.