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On the recordJune 21, 2021
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.
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Joni Ernst
Republican · Iowa

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Wind turbine taxes support rural school districts in Iowa.

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