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If the Federal Government picks up the tab for fixing Flint Michigan's contaminated water/crumbling infrastructure crisis, where does the Federal Government's role end?

Asked by ibstubro (18804points) February 7th, 2016

Nearly every city in the United States is faced with replacing a crumbling infrastructure that includes water pipes made of lead.

Can the Federal Government, in all good conscious, spend millions/billions in Flint, and refuse the same help to every other aging American city?

Where would it end?
If there were a cholera outbreak in Chicago due to the aging sewer system, would the Federal Government be on the hook for fixing all the inner city sewers, too?

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