[Twotone]

Already done in my old Oregon town. What took them so long?

[sauropod]

They tried this here in the people’s Republic of Maryland.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Things like this always sound great to non-homeowners who have been promised a cut of the new revenues.

[gundog]

I was gonna say....pikers.

[ridesthemiles]

LOS ANGELES has done this for years.

Every surface that is considered NOT PERMEABLE has a Sq Ft tax on it. Even the tops of horse shelters at a boarding stable I once had my horses at.

every roof-—sidewalk (city owned, BTW) every driveway, patio, etc.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Long as I remember the rain been comin’ down
Clouds of mystery pourin’ confusion on the ground
Good men through the ages tryin’ to find the sun
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Officials desperately trying to feed their addiction to money.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

What will the taxes run on a tarp in a homeless camp?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The joke has been they will tax the oxygen you breathe, but that will be next.

[gundog]

But, if you capture the rain in a reservoir, you’ll be jailed for taking the State’s water.

[Reno89519]

So Toronto wants to tax it, Oregon wants to own it. In both cases, landowners lose.

[SaxxonWoods]

“Toronto is consulting the public” and afterwards will ignore the public and do whatever it pleases.

[I want the USA back]

Just a sneaky way of taxing property and leaving owners with the false illusion that they actually “own” it.

The ultimate goal is total confiscation of all private property and the means of production. (Except that of the ruling elite, which won’t have to suffer the same pain as the common herd).

[ronniesgal]

didn’t Martin OMalley try this in Maryland?

[Zathras]

When I lived in Oregon, I was shocked how much water and water infrastructure costs.
Even AZ was cheaper.

[EVO X]

Ditto for my parents in an Illinois city.....

[Dacula]

If this is a problem, then the city needs to stop issuing new permits.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Another way to take money from property owners.

[quantim]

Much of that water ends up in the Great Lakes and we have had record high lake levels the last few years. As a resident Great Laker where is my cut of what the canucks take in?

[TexasFreeper2009]

Ironic since I remember some other state going after some guy who was collecting all his rain water to use!

Environmental wackos cant make up their minds!

[GailA]

btt