Thought I'd Heard It All---

[dustoffer]

When I was listening to the New Braunfels radio station (AM 1420) last week, they were talking about a new ordnance the city council had had the first reading on. It was to impose a charge (tax) on stormwater runoff from your land! It would be computed based on how much impermeable surface you had - driveway, slab, parking lot, etc.

Can you believe that? A tax on rain?

[Tommyh]

welcome to Houston Drainage Tax. the state supreme court upheld it for Houston, so a lot of other towns will do it too.

[bwssr]

welcome to Houston Drainage Tax. the state supreme court upheld it for Houston, so a lot of other towns will do it too.

yep

[CWKATTNER]

San Angelo has it. The tax plague is running rampant!

[Scout Man]

Thats Just crazy!

["DOC"]

Fort Worth is in on it for commercial property...............

[2B4Him]

Fort Worth is in on it for commercial property...............

Our storage facility gets to pay $313/month for this 'tax'!
When the sprinklers aren't going, our water bill is about $10.

[HuntinFrk]

Yep it torqued me up pretty good also, but how else is this countries gadillion dollar debt gonna get paid off

["DOC"]

Our storage facility gets to pay $313/month for this 'tax'!
When the sprinklers aren't going, our water bill is about $10.

Yep I feel your pain.

[Landrover]

Incredible! Fees, assessments and taxes are definitely outta control and has ONLY grown in the last 20 years nationwide!

[RiverRat1]

Want to know why taxes have to go up? It's because of all the scams. Read this link and be blown away.

And this is only one small way they scam our tax money. How long will "the people" sit around and watch them get rich off us while raising our taxes to pay for it?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620?print=true

[TexasBear]

It will never end unless we figure out what to do about it!

[Buckshot4900]

Can they legally tax an act of God????

[Split Arrow]

Can they legally tax an act of God????

Great question.

[Smart]

So they tax the runoff....capture it in tax funded reservoirs, clean it in tax funded facilities, and then charge us to use it for drinking, bathing and cleaning while taxing the property we use it on. .... Interesting...