# The truth has been revealed!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053 "2006-08-24T16:05:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/1 "2006-08-24T16:05:52Z")
Well, it has finally come to pass. The government has publicly announced that they are screwing us on taxes. [From today’s Houston Chronicle](http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/Clothahump/PubicHearing.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/2 "2006-08-24T16:24:24Z")
If “raising” is synonymous with “screwing”, I’ve been raising my wife for years! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/3 "2006-08-24T16:29:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/4 "2006-08-24T16:50:50Z")
[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. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/5 "2006-08-24T18:17:27Z")
Am I the only one who noted the typo in the memo? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/6 "2006-08-24T18:19:41Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Am I the only one who noted the typo in the memo? [/QUOTE] I have a feeling that’s what the OP was referring to? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/7 "2006-08-24T18:19:44Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Am I the only one who noted the typo in the memo? [/QUOTE] :smack: I went to Public Policy School and learned to type it _very_ carefully. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/8 "2006-08-24T18:21:46Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Am I the only one who noted the typo in the memo? [/QUOTE] Of if you meant you were the first responder to catch the OP’s meaning, then yes… ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/9 "2006-08-24T21:14:49Z")
[QUOTE=NinetyWt] [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. [/hijack] [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/10 "2006-08-24T21:18:11Z")
erm…technically ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/11 "2006-08-24T21:20:23Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Am I the only one who noted the typo in the memo? [/QUOTE] You’d think they would take that word OUT of the spell checker for this very reason. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/12 "2006-08-24T21:25:58Z")
[QUOTE=NinetyWt] [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. [/hijack] [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-has-been-revealed/370053/13 "2006-08-24T23:53:41Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] It’s all supposed to be absorbed into the groud before it leaves the property. That’s what retention ponds are for. [/QUOTE] :eek: We don’t have any ground here as porous as that. That would be fantastic. **shag** : surely you kid. Not [EVERYTHING.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mississippi-map.gif). Besides, I think we’re already taxed to pay the organization which maintains the levee system.