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by tastyfreeze 1851 days ago
People dump toxic chemicals on their property every day. Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and fertilizers are all toxic. Hell, we even pay farmers to do this.

There are other ways to mitigate this problem than giving voters the authority to dictate how a property owner uses their land.
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c0nducktr 1850 days ago
> People dump toxic chemicals on their property every day. Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and fertilizers are all toxic. Hell, we even pay farmers to do this.

It seems obvious that ForHackernews wasn't talking about things like the chemicals you've described.

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tastyfreeze 1850 days ago
The point I so coarsely was trying to make is, the impact is the same whether it is nondescript industrial sludge or sanctioned chemicals. Permitting one while demonizing the other for the sake of some control over property owners is asinine at best and a power grab at worst. We already have laws and penalties specific to the dumping of some chemicals that are effective regardless of who the property owner is. We would not need additional laws that apply specifically to property owners.
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