[DougEiffel]

That someone else is a collective of everyone else, as I'm sure you know. Because that's how a good society functions.

Either everyone pays to replace the lead pipes, or everyone pays when lead-poisoned children grow up dumber, angrier, and more violent. When someone with high amounts of lead in their system goes on to murder their neighbor or vote a fascist into office, you have to wonder if maybe they could have turned out different. Nevermind the added medical costs which "someone else" pays through insurance or taxes. Especially if the lead poisoned people are, on average, more likely to be homeless or less employable.

We all pay the price for toxins and pollution. That price is much higher than the tax increase.