Posted on 05/05/2009 5:10:08 AM PDT by reaganaut1
A shocking 22 percent of a typical city apartment dweller's Con Ed electric bill goes to a battery of city, state and federal taxes under a new state rate schedule that kicks in this month, a Post analysis found.
People who burn 250 kilowatt hours of electricity per month -- what a 750-square-foot apartment might use when air conditioners are turned off -- will see their bills jump 4 percent starting this month, assuming electric generating costs stay constant.
A big part of that jump is going to a 31 percent boost in Con Ed's property taxes, a 16 percent hike in the company's state and federal income taxes, and a sixfold boost in one of the state's utility taxes, which is rising from 0.33 percent to 2 percent, The Post's analysis shows.
After those levies are toted up in the bill, the city plops some whipped cream onto this tax sundae by imposing 2.35 percent tax on the company's gross receipts that Con Ed passes on to customers.
Then comes the maraschino cherry on top: The whole package is slapped with a 4 percent state sales tax -- which in part taxes taxes elsewhere in the bill.
Add it all up, and that 250-kilowatt-hour bill jumps to $64.26 this month, including $14.01 in taxes. That's up from a total bill of $61.77 for April, of which $11.29 was taxes.
Higher taxes take up so much of the new rate structure that Con Ed's cut of a 250 kilowatt hour bill will actually drop by about 25 cents, The Post's research found. Most of the tax levies are stashed away unexplained deep in customers' bills -- just where elected officials want them.
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I’m posting this here because I was prohibited from posting the article. Michael Savage has been banned from England. The link is to The Independent, U.K., which doesn’t allow copying of their articles. You can also find it on the Drudge Report.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/16-banned-from-britain-named-and-shamed-1679127.html
Liberals aren’t content to visit the Museum of Natural History - they want everyone back in caves living by firelight.
Great. More change I can believe in.
reason number 6775 sub paragraph C as to “Why not to live in the anus of the east coast” (like anyone with a functional brain needed another reason)
The tar is boiling, and the pitchforks have been sharpened.
The freakin’ libtards had BEST buy a clue.
Only 22% in taxes? Aw come on! This is NEW YORK STATE, there’s GOT to be three or four other taxes, surcharges, or fees that could be applied. Come on Patterson you don’t want to loose the ‘Most Taxed State of 2009’ award to Massachusetts!
But, but, but I thought they were only taxing the rich utility companies.
As if!
I wish we could fence them in and make them live with what they’ve done to themselves.
Instead, they flee to other areas that are habitable and vote to destroy that home as well.
Creating the liberal taxtopia of heaven here on earth requires considerable funding.
In North Dakota, heat bills in winter already run $200-$300/month without the Feds taking more through 'hidden' taxes.
Ha we'd all like to think that, but we all know it isn't true. The politicians and their bureaucratic flying monkeys will keep piling taxes on (stealing our property) and other than a bit of grumbling (which they couldn't care less about) nothing will happen to them at all. Nothing has happened yet and nothing will. Al long as they do it in an incremental fashion, the frog will be dead before he knows he is in boiling water.
No you dont understand, they are not taxing the voters, they are taxing the greedy electric company (con-ed). If you dont like it then support democrats to further punish the greedy corporations who have the nerve to pass on the tax in electric rates for their profit(I bet Bush and Cheney are behind this) , support Obama's Cap-and-Tax, long live Obama!
“The freakin’ libtards had BEST buy a clue.”
They’d use our money to buy it.
We’re also getting a nickel tax on plastic bags and a huge water increase.
Too many libtards in NY keep voting for this libtards.
PSE&G - Electric only for my house in Mount Laurel NJ runs $250 in the winter, $350 in the summer. Oil heat/hot water is a separate bill.
Duh...utilities and corporations do not pay taxes. Consumers of their services and goods pay them in the tax bill they pass along to us. It’s time the clueless figure this out when liberals want to raise “corporate taxes.”
Yeah, oil is a separate issue for me as well. That ran me another $1250 for last winter (500 gallons).
Couldn't happen to a nicer bloc of voters. Proof positive that people get the kind of government they deserve.
Will they be taxing the street lights?
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