Mark Neumann: “It is clear to me we should be using the dollars to clean up the site.…”

On the recordApril 30, 1996

It is clear to me we should be using the dollars to clean up the site. And right now only 50 percent of the tax dollars are actually getting out there to be used on cleaning up the site. And I would point out that is another vote that has been scored as antienvironmental if we do a risk assessment. Now let me ask another one. If the Federal Government initiates a new rule or a new regulation, and that new rule or new regulation causes an individual's property, has individual property, to decrease in value by more than 20 percent, say, the public is going to gain by this new rule or regulation. They want a waterway through a farm, so a farmer can no longer farm his land. So they initiate this new rule or regulation. Does the gentleman think it is reasonable that the Federal Government should compensate the individual citizen for the loss of his property value?

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Mark Neumann

Wisconsin

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the use of tax dollars for environmental cleanup and property value loss due to federal regulations.

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Mark Neumann: “It is clear to me we should be using the dollars to clean up the site. And right now only 50 percent of the tax dollars…”

Editor's note · Context