State representative Dan Eaton (D- Stoddard) has proposed a bill in the NH Legislature which would use $4 million in state funds (ie money derived from taxes and fees) to purchase 28 parcels of flooded land in Alstead, the site of terrible floods in October, 2005.

For more details, see this article, originally in the Keene Sentinel, and republished in the NH Union Leader

In this, the first of two parts, Gardner Goldsmith, of "Against the Grain" interviews Representative Eaton, and challenges his ethical, economic and legal assumptions.