| Title | New Jersey Wants to Tax the Rain | |
| Date | Monday February 11 2019, @04:37AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the pennies-from-heaven dept. | ||
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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