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To be fair: if this design was the price for free water everywhere I would pay for it. I want a world where I can get free drinking water everywhere so I don't have to carry it.
Meanwhile my shitty little European town has recently installed a fountain for drinking, filling up your bottle and also with a dog drink station, completely free.
They have those at a lot of parks that I take my dogs to in my state in the US too. Usually free poop bags too, and yet half still can't be bothered.
Why does it say "Woof Woof Bow Wow" on the dog bowl, if I may ask?
So that dogs can understand its purpose.
I am from Europe and that is not the norm.
"Free"
Nothing is free
Someone paid for the fountain. Either you, your neighbor, your friend, or your fellow countryman. But someone.
Why nickel and dime everyone that is probably never going to even see the fountain instead of letting the people that want/need pay for it?
Cold filtered water at just a single park you regularly go to is probably worth 3 bucks a month.
If extra money went to park improvements, that would be even better.
I don't see why everyone wants "free" when it's just a hidden cost that you're probably paying anyways. Yes, probably costs more for the people that use the service more, but that's the way it should be.
Personally I'd rather save 20 dollars on my taxes and bring water to the park. Even still tap water is just fine.
Why would I even want to pay 5 dollars more in taxes so someone doesn't have to bring a water bottle?
This is a premium service that shouldn't be the burden of the taxpayer.
This is one of the most American comments I've ever seen.
I am afraid to ask, but why do you hate society and your fellow countrymen so much? If the idea of taxes being used to help people fills you with so much rage, then I hope you have access to free mental health so you can figure out why you hate people so much
"Rugged individualism"
...until they actually need help, of course.
Oh boy never look as the defense budget.
Water is a basic human right. You think $20 is going to water fountains? Its probably half a cent of your taxes.
As for what was the op, its probably nothing in taxes as the company plans to make money off the chilled and filtered to offset the cost of installing the units. The government your taxes pay for probably mandated the free tap to let them install them.
Americans when their taxes are given to billionaires through kepto defense contracts or when billions are given to Israel to fund genocide: ..😴..zzzzzzzzzz...😴...zzzzzz....😴
Americans when taxes are used to help people: 😡😡😡😡😡
Americans when taxes are used to help the wrong people.
FTFY
Because access to clean water is a human right. No one is gonna die if the water is warm but someone will die if they don't have water.
What a crazy take
I understand this may come as a shock to you, but the world does not revolve around the comfort of individuals. Why do people like you throw such a hissy fit when your taxes goes to bettering people's lives around you? Where's your outrage for all the ways our Tax Dollars are actually wasted? Your selfish mindset does more to harm society than prevent any form of waste; you're just acting entitled over nothing.
Freedoms are seeping out of your pockets, you should get that checked.
Water is essential to human life. Go read a book.
Water is not a premium service. Really, try reading a book, it will make you very smart soon enough.
woah, bub, inflation is bad but it's not that bad. A fountain would come out to... like maybe a dime at most split between taxpayers. Depending on what budget it's coming out of, like if it were a federal park, probably less than a full penny.
When I was in Rome there were just public water fountains everywhere. Good quality water, accessible to everyone.
Not in Germany there aren't