Well to save the bay that we already spend billions on every year (at least), O’Malley had the brilliant idea to tax the rain that potentially could pollute the bay through run off from the rain......so they decided that anyone with a driveway, gutters, any semblance of a yard should have to pay a tax due to YOUR POTENTIAL pollution of the bay. It is just plain sick! The average is 4,000 a year (increased yearly - Just starting in July 2014) added on to all the other taxes we are suckered into every year. I swear it is getting MIGHTY close to my paying more to Maryland every year than the Federal Government....no kidding.
They had the rain tax in Colorado Springs for a while but a near revolt and court challenge got rid of that. I guess in Maryland, sounds like a moving truck is needed.