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NJ considers taxing tap water
Fox 5 ^ | July 19, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 07/19/2018 11:01:24 AM PDT by C19fan

Never short on ideas for things to tax, lawmakers in New Jersey are considering a tax on tap water.

The proposal is being floated by State Sen. Bob Smith D-Middlesex, who is trying to say it's not actually a tax but a 'user fee'.

"It is a user fee based on volume," Smith told Fox 5's Chasing New Jersey.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox5ny.com ...


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KEYWORDS: nj; taxes
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To: M Kehoe

[Don’t come to Florida if you a Jersey progressive. Stay where you are and eat your peas.]

I’m a NJ CONSERVATIVE and CAN’T WAIT for my opportunity to move to FLA!!!


41 posted on 07/19/2018 11:54:09 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: C19fan

Don’t these people already pay water usage fees? I know I do. To add a tax on top of it? Where is the tea stored?


42 posted on 07/19/2018 11:54:12 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Get in the Spirit! The Spirit of '76!)
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To: C19fan

If they want money, then sell your capitol building. Keep putting up with this BS.


43 posted on 07/19/2018 11:56:55 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Conserv

““It’s a user fee based on volume”

Ummm, that’s called your water bill.

A tax on the tax is next.


44 posted on 07/19/2018 11:57:13 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Conserv

““It’s a user fee based on volume”

Ummm, that’s called your water bill.

A tax on the tax is next.


45 posted on 07/19/2018 11:57:14 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: C19fan

No, it’s a user fee on air.


46 posted on 07/19/2018 11:58:34 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: C19fan

We left California when they were going to tax the rain. The idea was to tax the sq ft on your property that prevented the rain from going in to the ground. Driveways, roofs sheds etc. I don’t believe it went into effect but glad we’re out of that asylum.


47 posted on 07/19/2018 11:58:36 AM PDT by spudville
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To: rrrod

“It is a user fee based on volume,” Smith told Fox 5’s Chasing New Jersey.”

How you going to handle my well asswipe?


48 posted on 07/19/2018 11:58:41 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: cyclotic

“The previous lib governor of Maryland got you beat. He shoved through a tax on wastewater ostensibly to clean the Chesapeake Bay. Of course, about 80% of the money grubbing endeavors in Maryland are for “cleaning the Bay.””

Didn’t that filthy democrat get a tax on how much rain fell on you?


49 posted on 07/19/2018 12:01:18 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: blackdog

Yep, I can see it now. A brother on every street corner “Hey, wanna by some high quality imported H2O? Only a dime a gallon.”


50 posted on 07/19/2018 12:04:24 PM PDT by TonyM (UPS)
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To: TonyM
A brother on every street corner “Hey, wanna by some high quality imported H2O? Only a dime a gallon.”

Hey, man, my stuff is better ... it's dihydrogen monoxide ... two bits a gallon.

51 posted on 07/19/2018 12:06:40 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Antifa and Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) = SturmAbteilung)
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To: sphinx
If there’s a deficit, why not just increase water rates by the amount necessary? Why a new, separate tax?

Water utilities are mostly owned and run by local governments and they receive the money from the water bills for their operations. The State now wants their cut.

52 posted on 07/19/2018 12:08:38 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Like Bob Barker would say, Come on down!

5.56mm


53 posted on 07/19/2018 12:09:29 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: C19fan

My first thought as well...


54 posted on 07/19/2018 12:23:14 PM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: NEWwoman

The only person who pays a moving fee is the legal owner of the house and only if they sell the prior home in less than 1 year.


55 posted on 07/19/2018 12:26:06 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: shotgun
Thanks for the info. Whenever I hear about extra crap homeowners have had to end up paying, it makes me glad I never bought a home or owned any property. I'm 70, almost 71, and am glad it's one less thing my kids will have to deal with when I'm dead.

Just recently, my 77 year old cousin passed away. He owned two rental properties. His widow (2nd wife) was not on the deeds, so had no idea how much money he still owed on the mortgages. The estate lawyer told her it would be a good idea if she went to collect the rents. Once the tenants learned of my cousin's death, they all decided they weren't going to pay their rents anymore, and she was worrying about how to pay the water bills for the property if no rents were coming in. I told her she was under no obligation to collect those rents since her name wasn't on any of the deeds or mortgage loans. Let the estate lawyer deal with it.

At least the house they had bought together was in both their names, so she had no problem selling it. She had to sell it, since she wouldn't have been able to afford to stay there on just what she was making. She's now living with one of her daughters. For the life of me, I don't understand why my cousin held on to those properties for so long. I know people get used to the money coming in, but he didn't do his wife any favors. He'd always told her that if anything happened to him, she would be alright. Well, he lied...and she wasn't alright. Sadly, she had fallen for his line, and never questioned him about the finances. He had debts she didn't even know of. If he was alive today, I'd give him a piece of my mind.

It's amazing how many couples don't share financial information with each other. My own niece makes more money than her husband, and like her father (my deceased brother), she pays all the bills, and her husband has no idea where the money goes. I told her she wasn't doing him, or her any favors, because if anything ever happened to her, her husband would be in the dark on all of it. I thought this tendency for one partner to deal with the finances was a thing that older couples did. But my niece isn't even 40 yet.

56 posted on 07/19/2018 12:29:25 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Bonemaker

yea, there was that too.

When I moved here 8 years ago, the soulless vultures actually charged me sales tax on a car I’d owned for five years.


57 posted on 07/19/2018 12:31:01 PM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

‘I was considering a trip to a Jersey beach town until I saw you need a “beach badge” to use the beach.’

I hear Strathmere is a free beach...my recollection of it is a small less congested spot...

of course Atlantic City and Wildwood are free, have been since I can remember...


58 posted on 07/19/2018 12:42:01 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

Where do you pin the badge? On your Speedos?


59 posted on 07/19/2018 12:42:59 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: C19fan

It isn’t a USER fee....it goes thru a person & gets peed out.

IT is a RENTER FEE.


60 posted on 07/19/2018 12:43:22 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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