Should lawmakers back Dominion bond?

Since Dominion Energy customers are only 27% of the electricity customers in the state, why should South Carolina back a $2.3 billion unfunded liability, and expect the House and Senate to approve it? 73% of the state is not serviced by Dominion.

With Dominion being a corporation, does this “open the door” for other private/public entities to appeal to borrow on the same basis? Are SC taxpayers funding a bank?

The SC Pension Plan is $25 billion to $32 billion behind where it should be in longterm retirement benefits. With this unfunded liability, is it wise to take on more liability with the securitization measure?

Just where is the $1,000 per household that Dominion offered? That was a good piece in last week’s Chronicle but I hear friends ask that same question.

Yes, I’m a Dominion ratepayer.

Tom Plowden, Edgefield County

Is our demoncracy in trouble?

We are witnessing the fall – or groundwork for future fall – of America as it was created. We’re following the same paths as Rome, Germany, Italy and so many other so called “democracies” under dictatorial leaders and their supporters.

“Bad things happen when good people do nothing”– or do the wrong things.

Our country was created to give its citizens control of their lives. It was based on shedding the dictatorial powers of kings and other “noble” leaders, replacing it with the power of each citizen “created equal.”

To ensure the citizens’ rights were not usurped by corrupt governmental forces, our Founding Fathers created this country with equal separation of powers working together in a “checks and balances” system.

This is now being destroyed, but only by the collaboration of others. We now have a President whose goal is to have his will be unquestioned by those he wishes to rule.

The fact that he’s supposed to work with the other 2 equal branches of government, Congress and the courts, is not a disputable inconvenience as he believes.

We guarantee that no one man or group becomes a de facto king or dictator only by these separated powers working together.

They have to negotiate and settle on what’s best for our country. You don’t go around this to impose your will.

There is no better way for all of our opinions to be meshed into policy than this system to insure our continued democracy.

The 2016 election was about electing a President to work within the framework of our country, not a dictator to change it.

The 2018 election was about returning this power back to the citizens of this country as they saw it being taken away.

The results of these 2 elections represent equal authority and must be heeded for future governmental decisions.

How many more billions of dollars are our leaders wastefully willing to take out of citizens pockets due to their own narrow minded individual ambitions?

Perhaps the wrong people are making these decisions with some having been in a position to do so for far too long also.

David Hutchens, Lexington

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