Well, it has finally come to pass. The government has publicly announced that they are screwing us on taxes.
If “raising” is synonymous with “screwing”, I’ve been raising my wife for years!
My dad went to the city once about an issue with a new tax. We (a small business) started getting a Storm Sewer tax. When he complained that there’s no storm sewers on the property, they very frankly said “Mr P. if we didn’t create that tax, we would just have to raise a different one.”
At least he was honest about it.
[hijack] Even if there are no storm drains on your property, there may be others downstream which catch runoff from your property. That’s the idea behind the storm drain tax. Everyone might not have a storm drain, but everyone is in the watershed. The rain falls on the just and unjust as well, so to speak.
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Am I the only one who noted the typo in the memo?
I have a feeling that’s what the OP was referring to?
:smack: I went to Public Policy School and learned to type it very carefully.
Of if you meant you were the first responder to catch the OP’s meaning, then yes…
But it’s a new tax and we’ve been here 27 years. Besides, technicalli businesses (at least in our area) aren’t allowed to have any run off water. It’s all supposed to be absorbed into the groud before it leaves the property. That’s what retention ponds are for.
erm…technically
You’d think they would take that word OUT of the spell checker for this very reason.
Ladies and gentlemen, I, as your leader, believe the Mississippi River tax is just and appropriate for all people living East of the Rockies. Please realize that we are all equal in this regard and the rate is no higher than the new Pacific Ocean tax structure.
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We don’t have any ground here as porous as that. That would be fantastic.
shag: surely you kid. Not EVERYTHING.. Besides, I think we’re already taxed to pay the organization which maintains the levee system.
