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SWBTATTReg

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14. I find this ridiculous to privatize public utilities. For literally decades and longer, cities and
Thu Sep 8, 2022, 12:58 PM
Sep 2022

private citizens have put in tons of work and money into these systems, and thus, should, if something is privatized, receive some of the proceeds from a sale of these so called valuable assets. These systems can cost literally billions of dollars, the infrastructure alone to transport the waste products to treatment facilities and/or to dump the treated waste into appropriate venues are alone, worth billions of dollars. For a city or state or county to dispose of these facilities willy-nilly is reckless. If anything goes private, the citizens of that district should have an abundance of input into the process, after all, it was our tax dollars that put these facilities in place.

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