"DSK" wrote in message
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del cecchi wrote:


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?

Because we pay taxes so that you can have flood control dams, locks, &
levees (along with FEMA insurance for when those things are
overwhelmed) for
almost free.

Got no levees in Minnesota. The dams and locks are not for flood
control but for navigation. Same with the wing dams, closing dams and
dredges ruining the backwaters. All for the barges going down the
mississippi. Take them all out. fine with me. I didn't ask for them
in the first place. They dredge the channel and dump the spoil on the
bank. Then we have to dodge the barges and watch the backwaters die.

I don't agree with fema making people who build in flood zones and on
the coastal beaches whole everytime their house washes away either.

del




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.

Like I said.... greed & human nature... and the light of publicity...

DSK