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I don't think we really need the state government to take away a right and sell it back to us as a privilege.
Regardless of what we'll be promised, I think enough of us have seen what has happened in this state to allow that to happen. As a third generation Rhode Islander, it's a real old story.
IF the money was used - and fully accounted for - to improve and protect the resource I don't think very many of us would object. However, I think most of us have the gut feeling that the funds would end up being siphoned off elsewhere and the initial promises would end up never being fulfilled.
And in my own experience, the only time you're ever gonna get yourself in trouble is when you let someone talk you out of what your guts are trying to tell ya.
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