🚀 go-pugleaf

I would like to start a discussion here about the about the general 
history of subidized water projects costing taxpayers billions of dollars 
of which only a tiny percentage will ever be repaid.  I've been reading 
Cadillac Desert for the past month, and yesterday read the front page of 
the Wall Street Journal and found out about the new and expanded 
'takings'laws being proposed by several states, including I believe, 
California.  In this article (which meshes nicely with the incredible 
tales in Cadillac Desert) it was emphasized how self-described victims of 
environmental regulations would be compensated for the denial of their 
rights.  Specifically mentioned was farmers being compensated for the 
reduction in available irrigation water to replenish trout streams, when 
the irrigation water is made avialable only at never-to-be-recovered 
costs to the taxpayer.  Incidentally, the irrigators receive this water 
at rock-bottom prices, but would be compensated at market-value prices (a 
ten-fold increase).  Tell me this isn't going to happen!

Anyone who reads this post and is fed up with wasteful spending of tax 
dollars and is even moderately concerned with our environment, I hope you 
contribute to this post with your thoughts.
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Mike Taraszki                      
mtaras@crl.com