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TexasTowelie

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Mon Jun 21, 2021, 01:50 AM Jun 2021

Should taxpayers foot the bill for restoring the Midland dams?

SANFORD—Months after buying a six-boat marina and bait shop on Sanford Lake, Linda Shephard had just received permission to open when the rain started falling and refused to stop.

She sat on a picnic table and watched the floodwater rise over her seawall and inch up her property. Then came the text alert: The Edenville Dam, an impoundment that trapped 21.5 billion gallons of water just upstream, had failed.

“All of a sudden, I saw tires floating down the lake, and a little shed in the water,” she said. “That’s when I got up and got out.”

By the time she returned two days later, her dream of summers spent trading fish stories with anglers while she topped off their gas tanks had been washed away.

Read more: https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/should-taxpayers-foot-bill-restoring-midland-dams

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Should taxpayers foot the bill for restoring the Midland dams? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2021 OP
This is a nice example of how tax money is institutionalized to benefit whites. It is private ShazamIam Jun 2021 #1
Who would pay for it if not the tax payers. patricia92243 Jun 2021 #2

ShazamIam

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1. This is a nice example of how tax money is institutionalized to benefit whites. It is private
Mon Jun 21, 2021, 02:48 AM
Jun 2021

that damages that damages the environment, no longer generates power and serves only as recreational purposes for mostly white property owners who don't want to pay for re-creating the private lakes.

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