Nobody “owns” rain, or air.
While stationed in the U.K., I learned that England’s Subjects are taxed for using screens on their houses because “the Queen’s air flowed through their homes.” While building houses, they pay a special window tax for using “the Queen’s sunlight.”
Maybe we forgot that we’re not subject to the government; the government is subject to us.
Nay,
The tables have been turned.
We've been hornswoggled, given the ol' Okie-Dokie, bamboozled, hoodwinked.....