Homeowners Targeted With “Rain Tax” for Rain that Falls on their Property

FrontPage Magazine ^ | April 11, 2013 | Daniel Greenfield

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.

[rarestia]

I... umm... wow.

At some point in the history of nations, there’s a defining moment where the people either accept the chains upon their shoulders or they muster every last erg of strength remaining in their tired muscles, rise up to their feet, and cast off those chains in the direction of their slavemasters exclaiming, “This will not stand.”

Why are we allowing these chains to rest so lightly upon our shoulders?

[knarf]

This is the Onion, right ?

[Graybeard58]

Wouldn’t it be better if we just went to a straight up mafia state like Russia. Then we could dispense with the Rain Taxes and call a shakedown what it is.

Russia has a flat tax, 14%. That's why some Europeans are fleeing to there, not away from it.

[5thGenTexan]

Does a homeowner get a tax break for having a rain barrel?

[animal172]

Nope. This is for real.

[Roccus]

PING!!

I know you can add to this.

[MrB]

No, probably not. A rain barrel in Colorado is a violation of state water rights regulations.

[txhurl]

Then tell ‘em to come remove the rain, it was bothering you, anyway, if they think they own the rain.

[EBH]

They just started this here.

I am paying mine in tea....

[Doogle]

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-rain-tax-makes-a-splash-in-maryland-2013-4

[andy58-in-nh]

Why are we allowing these chains to rest so lightly upon our shoulders?

Winston Smith loved Big Brother.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Wouldn’t it be better if we just went to a straight up mafia state like Russia? Then we could dispense with the Rain Taxes and call a shakedown what it is.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty--to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln, 1855.

[Carriage Hill]

Rain Tax Ping.

[Salamander]

“The 10 areas affected by the “rain tax” include Montgomery, Prince George’s, Howard, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Hartford, Charles, Frederick, Baltimore counties, and Baltimore city.”

Look on the bright side.
Liberal counties will be hardest hit.

[MinuteGal]

Next, there'll be a tax on the air we breath....it'll be based on the amount of cubic measures of oxygen we displace while occupying this earth and how much we weigh.

In other words, since I am considerably slimmer than, say, Chris Christie, I will pay a lesser air tax than he.

Get it?

Leni

[ScottinVA]

Why are we allowing these chains to rest so lightly upon our shoulders?

Because they're being applied one link at a time. Americans are showing they're actually OK with it.

[Salamander]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA

[Daffynition]