If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.
I... umm... wow.
At some point in the history of nations, there’s a defining moment where the people either accept the chains upon their shoulders or they muster every last erg of strength remaining in their tired muscles, rise up to their feet, and cast off those chains in the direction of their slavemasters exclaiming, “This will not stand.”
Why are we allowing these chains to rest so lightly upon our shoulders?
This is the Onion, right ?
Russia has a flat tax, 14%. That's why some Europeans are fleeing to there, not away from it.
Does a homeowner get a tax break for having a rain barrel?
PING!!
I know you can add to this.
They just started this here.
I am paying mine in tea....
Rain Tax Ping.
In other words, since I am considerably slimmer than, say, Chris Christie, I will pay a lesser air tax than he.
Get it?
Leni
Lock and load people.
Besides deers running all over causing trouble we got traffic jams crowded schools endless waves of higher taxes and the new Balkinized citizens (Dems) here go for it.
I always wondered where were the envirnementists during this pave over of the county.
I proposed a development tax here 15 years ago to pay for all the new required and demanded schools and roadwork to support it INSTEAD of raising MY taxes endlessly, but development helps Dems HERE so they raised mine instead.
The American public will never realize that this is just another way of taxing what leftists hate the most: private property.
They did this in my neighborhood, as part of a storm sewer “tax,” which the city decided to charge via a utility bill, according to our “impervious surface area.”
Funny thing is, we live on the edge of town and have no storm sewers. Everybody’s rain eventually finds its way into my pond, and then follows it’s course downstream.
That was the one time I fought city hall and won. I simply refused to pay the “utility bill.” I “cancelled” my service- told them to “cut me off.” The city man eventually came to my house to reason with me. He was speechless when I asked him to please show me my storm sewer.
After I got a letter saying my charges would show up in my property taxes, I sent them a letter threatening to sue the city. There was already precedent in our state that people could not be forced to pay for utilities they have not received. The only lawyer on the town council agreed with me, and the bills ceased, nor were the charges ever added to my property tax.
That’s how metropolitan sewer districts determine fees charged to properties — that and water useage per household.
27 government vehicles counted on roads of one small section of one county in e central oklahoma. Most pickups with four wheelers, all monitoring the runoff from pastures “protecting” the lower illinois river to improve the trout fishery? There never has been a native trout fishery there.... never will be.
This is not a local thing. The EPA through the Clean Water Act is requiring it. The are requiring rainwater to be processed in water treatment plants (this is after it has fallen and soaked up dirt, chemicals, etc after running towards the closest river). I have seen it being talked about in several states and large cities.
I don’t know what the deadline dates are for the implementation, but if it is like past CWA initiatives, it will be phased in over 5 or 10 years starting with the large cities and working down from there. Eventually it will be the law of the land.
They get us for that here: $4.30/month for "my" place.