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Rain Tax
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:14 pm
by rocketdog
In case you thought the gov't had run out of ways to tax people, there is now a "rain tax" in Maryland:
http://www.gazette.net/article/20130405 ... te=gazette
Re: Rain Tax
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:17 pm
by RuralEngineer
Article no longer available. Bogus...?
Re: Rain Tax
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:11 pm
by RuralEngineer
Yep, my iPhone couldn't pull it up but my PC can...weird.
So instead of taxing the sources of the pollution that they're trying to reduce (nitrogen and phosphorus, assuming that the EPA has taxation powers)...they decide to tax based on the amount of impermeable surface on your property?
So if I have a 2 story house with a very small area per floor, but the same size as my neighbors ranch style home...I come out ahead in taxes, regardless of all the nitrogen and phosphorous I'm dumping on the extra yard, which is washing into the storm drain.
That's using your head, EPA. I swear that place is staffed by Al Gore's dumber (hard to believe, I know) relatives.