What a mess!

[nairiporter]

Piney Point: Emergency crews try to plug Florida toxic wastewater leak

Usual thing. A private landowner who knew all about the environmental risks when he bought the property (Piney Point), is seeking $6M in public money to fix the problem. Standard practice in the US!

So, he has done nothing and now it's somebody else's problem. Good thing for the private landowner. He will be sitting pretty after the taxpayer bailout. As for the environment, well... who cares about that when there is money to be made!

Will the companies who created this problem be billed for the mess? Will they wriggle out of paying and leave the tax-payer with the costs? Privatised profits, socialised losses.

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[dewline]

The companies that set this situation up should be billed for the consequences of not prepping for this possibility. They will try to wriggle out of paying the bill they ought to owe the governments - federal, state, county, municipal - for cleaning up this mess, however bad it ends up getting. "Polluter pays" is a principle that ought to be upheld here, though.

[mahnmut]

Trump flushed the toilet?

Freedom without responsibility

[tcpip]

It's almost as if we'd be better off without the landlord class.