Stop funding wealthy playgrounds when Flint residents need water.

While people in Flint struggle for clean drinking water, their tax dollars are spent maintaining the water of wealthy mansion owners on Higgin's Lake. But not for drinking--for swimming.

Swimmer's itch causes a rash and is carried in the feces of some ducks and geese. In 2016, the citizens of Michigan paid a group $250,000 from the General Fund to relocate just seven broods (a hen and her ducklings) of ducks in Higgins Lake in an attempt to solve their swimmer's itch problem. SEVEN. That's over $35,000 per family of ducks.

Are these the last seven duck families of an endangered species vital to the world ecosystem which had to be relocated to an exclusive resort? No, this is not the case.
They're just ducks, and the project just moved them to another lake. Ducks (having wings and a homing instinct) also return annually to their home lakes, therefore the only outcome of the situation was wads of cash in the pockets of a group of old college professors.

Now, even more wealthy lake communities want to get a share of this supposed "solution" to their first world problem of swimmers itch. And the state plans to use this group of “professionals” to license anyone who wants to manage swimmers itch. Say monopoly in the making and messed up priorities five times fast.

Even if you don’t live anywhere near a wealthy lake community, you're still stuck paying for their playground. And yes, some people from other areas visit their parks, but not enough to excuse spending a quarter million dollars of much-needed relief money on moving some ducks.

Find a better way to spend the money. Taxes shouldn't be a way for the rich to make everyone else pay for their hobbies. This is awful. I could do this in an afternoon for $100 and a grilled cheese sandwich.