Low Tax States Have Most Poisonous Water

What about the Love Canal?

What about the Hudson and GE?

aint the water made all better when we boils it to make our teas??

Steve I have a place in TN and the water there is much better then NYC. There are things swimming in my water here. TN has no state tax. NYC is the most unhealthy place on the east coast, look at incidence of Cancers in this area. Democrats at work for you here. The Tea Party is the only group that will save you from yourself and Bloomberg the dictator.

"NYC is the most unhealthy place on the east coast, look at incidence of Cancers in this area."

Fact check time.

It looks like New York City's rate of cancer incidence is about 450 per 100,000 (according to http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/).

They're in the bottom sixth of counties in New York state, and well below the average in New Jersey (502 per 100,000), Connecticut (504), Massachusetts (505) or Pennsylvania (497) or any other state in the Northeast. It's about the same as in Virginia, Florida and Georgia, which are the places with the lowest cancer rates on the East Coast.

If you look by mortality as opposed to incidence, the counties in NYC are again in the lowest sixth in all of New York state, which is in turn among the bottom sixth of all states (and easily the lowest on the east coast).

Actually, Chrissy, NYC has the best water in the world, and that's pretty well recognized everywhere. It comes from north of the city from the Kingston area all the way into Connecticut. It is one of the few major cities that don't filter their water - they only add alum to cause the natural sediment to dissipate. There is only one major pumping facility throughout the system; the rest is entirely gravity-fed. It is truly a marvel, not seen anywhere since the days of the Romans. (And we don't use lead pipes - just lead paint!)

But it is very expensive to run; costs billions. However, it's the key, unreproducible ingredient to NY pizza. Ask anybody from Chicago.

Steve -- I don't think you need an extensive rebuttal to Chris13. The idiocy shines through from the post itself; it's kind of like how you can spot Glenn Beck as a douchebag in less than 5 seconds.

Believe it or not, I completely agree with steve. NYC water is excellent.

Of course, tax rates are irrelevant as a factor in this. Trying to connect the two is just silly.

Steve NY has higher incidence then Flordia 491 to 462 there goes your argument. Looking at the northeast as a whole-higher then the tea party states.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.20073/pdf

I have lived here for 16 years and would not drink the tap water, it looks and taste bad. JMHO

Chrissy, that wasn't my argument. Check again.

Right-o, LICCdope - the water infrastructure is FREE!

Please.

"Steve NY has higher incidence then Flordia 491 to 462 there goes your argument. Looking at the northeast as a whole-higher then the tea party states."

I know you struggle with facts, but it helps to at least know who you're talking to.

You seem to not be able to comprehend the difference between "New York City" and "New York State", though. I said New York City's cancer incidence was about the same as Florida's. You said that New York State's was higher. Both of these things was true, but your original claim was that New York City had the most cancer of anywhere on the East Coast, so the New York State incidence is irrelevant.

They should carbonate and bottle Newtown Creek water -- sparkling!

chris13, if you don't like the look of your water, it has only to do with the plumbing within your building.

wait...our water just rains down from the sky in the form of.....rain...it's free right??

Below pls find what represents, perhaps, the pinnacle of LICCdope's dopery:

"Of course, tax rates are irrelevant as a factor in this. Trying to connect the two (taxes and the delivery of high-quality water to ur homes and businesses) is just silly."

stunning...no?

Chris -- Your post, which I assume is not a joke, is an example of why the Framers of our Constitution wanted to reserve the vote for educated people rather than willful ignoramuses.

Before you spout off about NYC tap water, perhaps youshould look up the facts. If you did, you would find that Tennessee tap water has been considered dangerous, with tons of Cryptosporidia among other problems. Conversely, NYC tap water is considered to be among the best in the world. It certainly tastes better than anyplace I've ever been and I miss it when I'm not in New York. But if you really want to spend your money unnecessarily, it's a free country. At least, it is so far. BTW, some of the bottled water you've been buying is NYC tap water. .

As for the Tea Party, I will paste in a YouTube link called, "Hi, I'm a Tea Partier." I enjoyed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnUfPQVOqpw&feature=share

Generalogoun -- Good stuff, but why are the creatures talking just like the figures in the GEICO ads?

Little on the wordy side, that vid, but not bad.

" Good stuff, but why are the creatures talking just like the figures in the GEICO ads?

Dunno, maybe it's just all one big liberal conspiracy.

My favorite line of that video is "words have actual meaning."

Liberals own GEICO? Excellent, we are rich now.

What I like about the Republicans in Tennessee is that they wouldn't even have electricity if it weren't for rich Easterners who pay high taxes, because that's who built the Tennessee Valley Authority.

You know, FDR.

The Tea Party makes no sense: even their water comes from the government!

"Of course, tax rates are irrelevant as a factor in this."

Maybe they would be able to afford better purification equipment if they had more tax revenue? Or more security to make sure nobody is dumping garbage into reservoirs?

Absolutely not, WB is correct. What we are all required to do now is what my great-grandmother told me they used to do in Ireland: put barrels under the manure-and-straw roofs, let the water drain into them, and drink. Or make Irish stew.

Nothing beats boglife, that's for sure!

So raising taxes will make the water more nutritious? Ah, the folly of socialists and big-government liberals . . .

Not just more nutritious, but also more delicious.

You're right, LICCdope - just take your ladle down to the Newtown Creek, where the water is free.

"Conversely, NYC tap water is considered to be among the best in the world. It certainly tastes better than anyplace I've ever been and I miss it when I'm not in New York. But if you really want to spend your money unnecessarily, it's a free country. At least, it is so far. BTW, some of the bottled water you've been buying is NYC tap water."

Uh, you know the water isn't from NYC? It is from upstate.

Using that as a sign of NYC health... that's just poor logic.

SWE, who did that? Of course we know that NYC water doesn't come from here, except for the reservoirs, which in any case contain water from upstate & CT.

You could drill a well for water, if you want. I don't suggest going the LICC route of dipping a ladle into the Newtown Creek for your supply, though, as a) your ladle might dissolve.

I think I'll stop at a).

BTW, one of the funniest episodes of "Keeping Up Appearances" is when Hyacinth calls the Water Board and demands that they send her new water. She didn't want water that had been used before.

LMFAO.