Letter to the Editor
A Reader’s Response to the Water Issue in Trezevant
From the Feb 25, 2025 e-EditionSo Trezevant needs a $6 million dollar upgrade to their water system (The McKenzie Banner, 2/18/25). How are they going to pay for it? Well, they are raising their rates so they can get a match for “a federal grant.” Their consultant wants engineers to get working and “start applying for federal funding.”
What are they thinking? Trezevant voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump to stop federal spending. We already have an enormous federal budget deficit. The idea that the federal government should come save them when they have just voted to shut down most federal spending and fire federal workers is, well, ludicrous.
Yes, Biden and the Democrats paid for a new water system in Hollow Rock. But there’s a new sheriff in town.
Trezevant’s water is fine. All the local politicians are drinking it. If they want to upgrade their water systems let them borrow $6 million and pay it back. It’s what they voted for.
Malcolm Pearson
Huntingdon, TN
In the e-Edition
McKenzie Banner February 25, 2025
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