Posted on 09/26/2011 12:50:48 PM PDT by AT7Saluki
Authorities in the northwestern Lower Peninsula are considering whether to levy a tax on septic tank owners to cover unexpected losses at a $7.8 million plant that treats their sewage.
The Grand Traverse County Board of Public Works is to meet today to consider recommendations of a committee that spend three months studying the issue.
The meeting is set for 9 a.m. at the Garfield Township hall, south of Traverse City. Participants include supervisors from those townships that guaranteed the bonds sold to build the Grand Traverse County Septage Treatment Facility.
(Excerpt) Read more at ironmountaindailynews.com ...
WTF? “You don’t contribute to the problem, so YOU have to pay.”
” levy a tax on septic tank owners to cover unexpected losses at a $7.8 million plant that treats their sewage. “
Definitely in the running for “Oxymoron of the Day”
They’re full of SH!T.............
Just as soon as they cut a check for the total amount of installation of same, from digging, to placement to hook up and conncetion to dry wells.
From that point on, to be 100% responsible for routine pumping and maintainence, and any emergency plugups.
Then, it would make sence to throw in a monthly "fee".
The article says it is for the plant that treats their sewage. I can see some logic for holding tank owners, but my understanding of septic tanks is that they are not pumped unless they malfunction. Not correct?
Annual assessment with or without regular pumping and dumping of the septic system... And lowering the dump fee for sewage. So, if you’ve a septic system which doesn’t need to get regularly pumped out, you get to pay for part of the costs of someone who does, as well as those who are connected to the main sewer lines.
Yep, can’t wait for those tobacco taxes on stop smoking products, followed by tobacco taxes on milk or some other object to make up for the shortfall...
They tax workers to pay people who do not work...............
The newspaper is coming dangerously close to producing something useful. Did the government greatly overestimate the volume? Did they intentionally underestimate costs to get the bond passed? Are there competing sewage treatment facilities nearby which are taking their business because they set the price too high? Are Michigan residents refusing to use the toilets and are now just completely full of $***.
Traverse City is where Michael Moore is now living.
Make that a per-flush tax and he can probably balance your books single-handedly.
It’s wise to pump your septic tank once every two years. We use a private company, as do most of our neighbors, and those companies appear to contract with municipalities to use suitable landfill facilities for disposal (for which I believe they pay a fee).
They’re full of SH!T.............
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Leave it to a democrat to want to tax even THAT!
This article is very confusing? Is the article saying if I have a septic tank and I am not hooked into their sewage system, I will be charged a fee?
How about a blade of grass tax?
Pretty soon they will have a justification for taxing both your intake and exaust functions so everything from breathing, eating and drinking as well as their exaust products will be taxed. To them the ordinary citizen is nothing more than a cash cow. You jackasses elected them so you only have yourselves to blame.
Actually in Kaliphorniastan they have a tax on hybrids for that very reason.
Already happening here in Western PA, only, here they do it a little bit different. You are basically ordered to tie into the new sewage system (tie in cost alone is $6000; that does not include parts, excavation and labor, that is just the “blessing” to get onto the system). Following that, if you don’t tie in “they” will start charging you for services you have never used. Finally, you will get a lean on your home for services NEVER USED! Ed Rendell and his band of merry democrats in PA foisted that one on us. People have lost their homes over it and many had to take seconds against their home just to keep the state government off their backs. I’m still fighting it myself and it has been three years and running now. My bill STILL says ZERO usage, yet the sewage “authority” still keeps trying to charge me.
They are going to tax the cr@p out of them!
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