[dhuber]

This is not surprising considering who proposed it

[RightOnline]

The Peoples Republic of Maryland strikes again.

Anyone who deliberatly chooses to live or locate a business in this Socialist State is a damned fool.

[rhombus]

What gives them the right?

[Husker24]

Pretty soon youll need a permit to take a dump. Maybe the state could just install one of those credit card thingys on your toilet so before your allowed to go you have to swipe a card through it and be charged a tax or something. We shure wouldnt want someone getting away with takeing a tax free dump would we?

[Ben Ficklin]

Charging for these permits is a headfake. Mentioned, in passing, are those words: sediment control, stormwater mgt, wetlands regulations, pollution.

This the non-point pollution regulations coming into effect.

[Looking for Diogenes]

Aren't 'user fees' preferable to general taxes? Why should the general public pay higher taxes to offset the costs of managing water resources instead of those that use them?

Twenty years ago user fees were a conservative tenet. Has something changed?

[Free the USA]

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[Revel]

I just found out today about a bunch of new water laws that are comming on the books in my state. I am told this is all due to Federal laws. It is getting pretty much imposible to run a small water system with even just a few familys on it. So many tests and evauluations. Constant redefining of maximum contaminat levels of every thing you can think of. Did you know that every well with more than 3 familys must be controlled and monitored. Chlorination(a carcinagin), Daily monitoring, hundreds if not thousands of dollars for constant tests.(You name it) And now all this is going into effect for small resturants also. All of this for ground water wells where no one ever got sick from the water. Did you know that all of these wells have been GPS located and there exact locaton has been placed in a database that was available on the internet before 911. I hear it can still be accessed if you have a password.

Don't be surprise when you see rents being increased and prices of food at resturants being uped to pay for all of this. We have a become a society who is willing to let the government regulate our every move in order to obtain what we think is safety. We have become a bunch of socialist whimps who place no vaule on our freedom. All because we are scared. It is really a sad time in our history.