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Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is poised to sign a "rain tax" bill passed by the state legislature Jan. 31 — and Republicans and lots of taxpayers are howling with rage.
"Every time you think there's nothing left to tax, we come up with something else," Assemblyman Hal Wirths (R-Morris-Sussex) exploded during a debate on the measure.
"It's just never-ending down here."
The law allows each of the state's 565 municipalities to set up its own public stormwater utility. The new bureaucracies will build and manage sewer systems to treat pollutant-filled stormwater runoff.
https://nypost.com/2019/02/09/new-jersey-wants-to-tax-the-rain/
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday February 11 2019, @05:03PM
Exactly. It's not taxing rain, its taxing "pollutant-filled stormwater runoff". Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, I shouldn't be subsidising someone else's effluent flow.
Right, those stormwater systems are not free. Who exactly do they think should pay for them.
Oh, nevermind, conservative math... Tax and spend is bad so let's just put it on the credit card.