Iirc, once the solder is exposed to the wrong conditions the damage is done. It’s a mechanical process after that point. But even if I’m wrong about that one, simple awareness isn’t enough and municipalities lack funding to properly monitor and treat their water supplies. Hence the need for a redress of the social contract at the national level.
So “we can’t afford spend $Y million per year on this problem so we instead need to spend $500Y million on a project to replace all the pipes”? That doesn’t sound sensible to this taxpayer.
Your taxes already have nothing to do with government spending. Their affect is to keep you from doing other things with your money. At best, taxes disincentivize bad actions and reward good through decreases/rebates. There’s the obvious tax incentive for marriage, for instance - not considering whether that’s a good or bad thing.
