Also known as the Safe Clean Water Program, Measure W would tax 2.5 cents per square foot of impermeable area. The tax would raise an estimated $300 million a year to capture billions of gallons of stormwater, clean it, and reuse it for future water supply.
https://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2018/10/26/63836/airtalk-debates-2018-ballot-initiatives-measure-w/
Isn’t everyone already paying property taxes? This seems like a very odd tax.
Maryland had this. Big Lib, Martin O’ Malley, thought this Rain Tax was a good idea.He was voted out.
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This should go down 2:1
Only land owners can vote on land tax measures in CA.
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Sounds like a way to get around Prop 2½.
Property taxes.... another excuse to put off home improvements until right before you sell your home otherwise you get soaked for improving the value of your home...
It is sickening how taxes are used to manipulate behavior and how they people who implement them never consider the long term consequences, or if they do they are evil enough to actually recognize their long term consequences to intact “good intentions with bad consequences” against the common folk.
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Let them approve it. All the taxes and fees are causing California to crater.
An old guy when I was a kid said the way things are going they would hang a meter around your neck and charge you for the oxygen you breathe.
They already have a similar tax in (R)Edmonton Canada. They charge a fee for storm water drainage based on the area built up on your lot. (Square footage of buildings.)
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So they intentionally dump tons of rain-river-water into the sea, to “save” endangered fish that are not endangered, denying water to both farms in the central valley and residents in the south, and now they want to tax residents for the crime of having driveways, patios and such!!!!
What are the progressive fascists of California doing?
EVERYTHING is for their political agendas and nothing is for the people.
If Measure W goes through, property owners might have to pay a tax for impermeable land like driveways, patios, parking lots, rooftops and other paved surfaces that don’t absorb water.
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Only the Left could make the function and purpose of a roof a bad thing.
This reminds me of an old Mexican movie I saw a few years back. Mexico was taxing the people right and left to raise funds, when one man said...”I wish we could tax the air they breathe!”
Others thought it was a great idea, so they put a tax on windows and doors.
End result, people bricked up their doors and most windows, and entered and left their homes by a ladder to one window.
The way new houses are built in lots of places in Kalifornia is big two story houses on lots barely bigger than the house.
With most (3/4?) of rhe lot covered by the house, driveway, sidwalks and patio, on lots of say 7,000 square feet, the tax would amount to about $131.50 additional tax per home; for average size new homes/lots. But with taxes already among the highest in the nation, what’s another $100+.
And the fact is, the state will just wastefully spend the money and not build the extra water resovoirs. Why do we say that? They do not even need the money. They have millions they allocated and have not spent on improving and enlarging their water resovoirs.
England used to have a tax on windows. This was to pay for the change from hammered to milled coinage. It was easy to assess—the collector simply counted your windows and gave you your bill. Of course people made a point of having as few windows as possible.
Have they started taxing breathing yet?
I have heard that is never rains in southern California, so the folks around LA should do all right without roofs.
What if your roof leaks?