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Why is the Tea Party in favor of cancer causing agents in drinking water?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/11/tea-parti...

WASHINGTON -- An attempt by a Kentucky water district to raise rates in order to meet clean water regulations has become political, with a local Tea Party organization stepping in and arguing that the county should simply ignore federal rules.

According to the EPA, the regulations are intended to reduce not only bladder cancer, but also colon cancer, rectal cancer, and health risks to pregnant women and their fetuses. The Northern Kentucky Tea Party did not return a request for comment.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I don't know. I guess it's not a whole lot different from Sharron Angle claiming that fluoridation in water is a Communist plot to take over the US. The main thrust of all the tea party stuff has always been to avoid spending money for any purpose, no matter how worthy.

    And for those of you who apparently believe that HuffPo is a completely fictional newspaper, here's another source. http://cincinnati.com/blogs/nkypolitics/2010/10/15...

  • ?
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    1 decade ago

    The Tea Party/ Re pubs are not concerned and never have been on the Environmental issues concerning the Country. This was always a Democrats doing. Many of Polluters are Big Business that Re pubs support because their Big Donors for the Republican Party.

  • 4 years ago

    did you already know intense time spent on Y!A reasons strategies maximum cancers? What does not reason maximum cancers in recent times? only stay your existence w/o due regard to well-being warnings. common experience and self upkeep will continually kick in.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The EPA is taking every yard when given one inch, illegally, placing unlawful, ridiculuos constraints on the free world. They use scare tactics to get to believe their propaganda.

    As for the tea party, they have no stance on clean water.

    Since cap and tax could not be passed, Obama gave the EPA, unlawful authority in regulating the hell out of us to punish us for not supporting cap and tax.

    The tea party apposes that, not clean water.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I'm guessing it's the principle of the matter, which doesn't make it any less stupid. They're also whining about a county that wants to start a recycling program and only hire one company to go around and get the trash and recycling. The teatards claim that it's an infringement of their rights to not allow them to have a choice in who picks up their stupid garbage.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sly kitty- Did you even bother to read the story? No as usual you blame it on the Corperations, which this has nothing to do with...how ignorant are you?

    25% rate increase? That is pretty excesive.

    BTW you really need to find a better news outlet since the Huff post is so far left they are off the map.

  • 1 decade ago

    We could reduce cases of skin cancer if we blot out the sun too, I say we raise taxes to distribute sunscreen. Individuals could possibly be held responsible to purify there own water, whatever did we do before public utilities.

  • 1 decade ago

    It isn't that they are in favor of cancer causing agents so much as they are lapdogs for the corporations who don't want to comply because it would cut into their profit margins.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Come on, this is just one Tea Party group in freaking Kentucky and your source is HuffPo. I'm as liberal as the next guy, but this is insignificant and doesn't represent them as a group.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Them people in Kentucky are just plain batty.

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