Quote:What happens when these businesses get together and conspire against you? You may "choose" to ride your bicycle when gas prices are too high, but the companies that you haven't considered are still using them. What will you do when all of the water companies get together and charge too much for water? Even if you find a way to survive, the cost of everything you use will increase too. You aren't "choosing" when everyone works together, and there's no reason to believe that they wont do that.

If we want to go off into hypothetical land I'll play;


What good would it do water companies to overprice their product? A resource that replenishes itself in nature, a resource that is 100% treatable by anyone with a little effort. You don't buy water from a utility company you buy the convince of it treated into your housing pipes, you pay for it bottled and cold, you pay for it disposed down sewage pipes but water is free.


What about people in the desert, well if they can't pay they wouldn't live in the desert gasp they might have to relocate!


The point is the market is simply people offering services and prices at a cost that other people are willing to pay, charge to much and you go out of business.


Now government on the other hand is third parties that make nothing produce nothing and sell nothing dictating what you must produce, purchase and how much.

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