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How is it going to cover the whole country when 1/4 of the total is needed for just one city?
The math ain't mathing....
Maybe if we took the 17+ billion dollars Biden sent to Israel so they can genocide all their neighbors it would be enough, but 2.6 billion is nowhere near enough to actually fix this problem, but is it enough for people to give Biden credit before it's done. No idea why people keep wanting to do that. The vast majority of the time nothing ever gets done.
Cities should take on most of the cost themselves. Some cities have already done this from their own revenue - pipes wear out over time and so on - why should those cities pay for cities that couldn't be bothered?
Because we live in a society.
I don't know how to convey that you should do things that keep people, particularly children, healthy even if they don't live in the same municipal tax jurisdiction.
If your thought was shared by society, we wouldn't have lead pipes to begin with and you wouldn't have cause to reply so smugly to someone merely suggesting people should get what they vote for.
If people thought we lived in a society, than we wouldn't have used lead pipes in the 1950 or before?
In an era where we didn't know there was as much risk as we found out over the following decades?
What the fuck are you even talking about? Do you know when these pipes were even installed?
Do you think that people should be held responsible for the votes of their great grandparents? Or, more specifically, that their children should get brain damage because of how their great great grandparents voted?
What do you think we gain by letting poor communities be potentially poisoned? That hurts all of us.
Hell, Flint (the prototypical example) didn't even vote for the people who screwed them over. The state government imposed them on the city against their will.
I suppose you think they deserve lead poisoning because they didn't have the good graces to have a flourishing economy after the biggest employer in the city left?