In one of my 99 county tours in Iowa, in Northwest Iowa, very sparsely populated, it was brought to my attention that the wind turbines on a number of these properties, actually the taxes drawn from those wind turbines enabled that very small rural school district to remain in place.
Wind turbine taxes support rural school districts in Iowa.
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