Water Company

The red ink just goes on and on. At the session appointing a new water commissioner (I applied but the commissioners and selectmen were having none of that), one of the commissioners, by posing a loaded question to the candidates, essentially said the water users were already paying too much and couldn't pay any more and the taxpayers would just have to suck up to it.

Do you suppose the commissioners will ever focus on getting their financial house in order by cutting costs, not coming back to the taxpayers to solve the water company's problems? I'm not aware of any constitutional right that the users have to be subsidized by the rest of us. I suspect that in the long run it would be cheaper for the taxpayers to pay for the users digging their own wells rather than pay a continuously rising subsidy.