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(Rich Stern) wrote in message ...
You guys get free use of resources the rest of the country subsidizes,
the quality is great, the cost is very low. Of course you don't
complain. :-)

Explain again please why the taxpayers of Minnesota or Mississippi
should pay money so that you folks can have lake cabins for almost free?
And what about the folks in the area who didn't get in on the gravy?
They are paying more taxes than they would if you guys had to pay market
type taxes.

Just a contrary point of view. Same thing happened here in Minnesota
with state land in the school trust that was supposed to be generating
money for schools, but was being leased for cabins on lakes at way below
market rates with no property tax on the land. Took a lawsuit to fix
it.

del cecchi

Del, not quite as lopsided as you depict.

First of all, the lakes generate cheap, clean electricity. That limits
pollution, which is good for everyone. And it keeps us from being in the
market for electricity from other, more electrically challenged regions, which
keeps national prices down.

Second, the lakes help prevent flooding, which keeps insurance costs low, and
avoids "federal disaster area" costs like those racked up by the hudreds of
millions of dollars in places the Midwest.

It's not like the school trust situation you depict. Nobody is leasing the COE
managed land at below market rates. It's there for public use. It's unbuilt.
If you ask nicely, the COE will let you maintain a 4 foot wide path across
their land to the water. If you pay a permit fee, they'll let you have a dock
on their waterline. If you pay a fee, they'll let you camp at one of their
campgrounds. If you pay a fee, they'll let you launch from one of their boat
ramps.

You are welcome anytime. Bring money for fees.

So, let me ask you... If someone were to want to fish from around YOUR
home, how much would it cost... or could they fish there at all? I see
it all the time... they just had to cut down several natural barriers
from the easements to the water in my town... All the local land
owners had grown briars and bushes in them to keep folks from using
them as they ran "to close" to their property.
A contractor wants to build a house in the woods... an
environmentalist already has one! Scotty

-- Rich Stern
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