A reader writes, in reference to this comment from the Detroit News column linked yesterday:
Even scarier is the prospect of creeping nationalization by the voracious state. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality recently asserted control over newly uncovered bottom land left by lower lake levels.
The reader's comment:
It was interesting how he equated the "seizing" of property with the state's
fundamental ability (and responsibility) to regulate. Using the same reasoning,
he should be comfortable if, for example, lake levels rise in commensurate
fashion (which is the natural cycle), whereupon the state decides to do some
fish habitat management on his front lawn.