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Originally Posted by MAXUM
Plus again if the tax payers voted on it then the appropriate people made the ultimate decision, the ones would have ended up writing the check for it.
My thought is the best option for public preservation would have been to have the state do it, built a nice state park there, put in a massive boat ramp and parking lot. Sure would have beat that piece of crap they bought at the end of Alton Bay years later. The state is in a much better position to take on a project like that
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Not exactly. The major taxpayers in most of the waterfront towns are non-residents and therefore not voters. The people who vote for some of these things like school budgets are voting to spend their money as well as the money of people who have no say in the matter and in many cases do not use the resources.
As far as having the state pay for it: Yes it spreads the expense out over a larger pool of taxpayers but it is still money that needs to be raised from the tax levy.
Sorry, there is no free lunch!