Would President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on "rainwater runoff" from homes and small businesses?
You bet they would. In fact, the EPA, under radical environmentalist Lisa Jackson, is proposing regulations to do just that.
Take a look at the EPA's own Federal Register filing, where the EPA generally describes the initiative it's proposing:
...requirements, including design or performance standards, for stormwater discharges from, at minimum, newly developed and redeveloped sites. EPA intends to propose regulatory options that would revise the NPDES regulations and establish a comprehensive program to address stormwater discharges from newly developed and redeveloped sites and to take final action no later than November 2012.
This is bureaucratic-speak for having the EPA force cities and counties to limit stormwater runoff to levels the EPA deems acceptable. Limiting "rainwater runoff" will mean forcing homeowners and businesses to pay new taxes in order to rein in rainwater, and that's no pun intended.
Think about just how big-government this is. A Washington, D.C. bureaucracy plans on forcing your local county or city to slap new taxes on you and me because this big-government bureaucracy wants to micro-manage rainwater across the entire country. Already, several counties and cities across the United States are moving to pass new taxes and fees in anticipation of the new EPA rules, including cities in states as disparate as Florida, Ohio and Kansas.
But really, this new EPA outrage is part of the pattern of the Obama Administration. Cap-and-trade is bogged down for now in the Senate (though they'll try to bring it back this year), so the liberals try to use an un-elected bureaucracy to pass their radical agenda. First, they declared that greenhouse gases are a "threat" to the environment and to health, so they're pushing new regulations that will in effect pass cap-and-trade without Congress having to act. Now, they're pushing this new "rainwater runoff" tax.
Our freedoms and our economy are being threatened from the EPA's arrogant, nutty agenda. The EPA's head, Lisa Jackson, attended the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen where she stated her intention to "transform" the way the American economy works using her bureaucracy.
Obama's EPA is such a runaway bureaucracy at this point that only Congress can stop them. Thankfully, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has a proposal to do just that. Murkowski has a resolution of disapproval—which would stop EPA in its tracks—that has been gathering steam, but we need your help to put her over the top. Tell your senators to support S.J.Res. 26. Make sure they know you will hold them accountable if they don't help pass Murkowski's resolution. Any lawmakers who won't stand up to stop the EPA are complicit in the onerous regulations they are trying to pass.
Tell Your Senators to support S.J. Res.26
Senator Mikulski in D.C. (202) 224-4654
Sal (410) 546-7711
Senator Cardin in D.C. (202) 224-4524
Sal (410)546-4250
Tell Representative Kratovil to support H.J. Res.76 and sign a discharge petition for House action.
Support H.R. 391 that pre-empts EPA's alleged authority to regulate greenhouse gases.
Rep. Kratovil in D.C. (202) 225-5311
Sal (410) 334-3072
Centerville ( 443) 262-9136
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10 comments:
Why not tax rainwater? The libtards (Dumbocrats) are trying to tax air
Why should taxpayers pay to clean up run-off from a developer's mistakes? The run-off taxes the waste water treatment plants, and includes petroleum products, wastes, fertilizers, etc. that lay on parking lots, driveways, and access roads. These waters end up in the Bay and then we are taxed to clean the bay (sewer tax on my water bill--$30/year). I'd like to share the taxation with those responsible.
This is nothing more then a side battle against the automobile.
In order to comply a developer would have to spend tens of thousands dollars more to support vehicle access.
Solution, pave nothing.
Sand Box John
It appears there is additional details regarding these regulations. Should businesses that produce or use toxic chemicals be taxed for run off, absolutely. Walmart was fined a huge sum for storing fertilizers, seed, and even soil in the parking lots because the run off after rain was going into storm drains..hence polluting the waterways with the chemicals in the above mentioned. Any person or business that introduces a large amount of foreign material into water ways by direct cause from rain water run off should have to either modify the storage or stop producing hazardous materials. They should be taxed for their part.
However newly constructed homes, specifically along the Chesapeake Bay, are supposed to be closely monitored during the building process so any threats should be noted before construction begins and new plans should have to be developed to prevent any impact on the water.
And I thought our own "Flust Tax" was bad.....
Obama is an idiot, period. He has no freakin clue what to do and will destroy this country unless someone takes him out of office now. Id much rather have a president that gets blow jobs in the White House than this idiot.
I do not respect him nor believe he has authority for this country until he proves he is an american citizen.
After he screws country up he can live in Africa and laugh or Iran probably.
It just proves how stupid we are to let it happen!
IMPEACH tha jacka$$
10:09
I've been hoping that some group of Military Generals forcably remove him and stuff him on a plane to Kenya with a 1 way ticket
Guess what? Many people are not only paying a "Rainwater Tax" but have been for years. Most Homeowner's Associations were formed (a govrnment requirement in most new subdivisions) in order to create an instrument by which stormwater ponds (required by government) are maintained. Fees and rules must be established (required by goverment) and maintenance schedules set. This has been going on for so many years that now the goverment forces all these associations to have by-laws that have nothing to do with maintaining stormponds. In other words if you live in a subdivision with an association you paid more for your home, which means you pay more in taxes and you pay association fees to maintain a stormwater treatment system, while at the same time older areas pay nothing and continue to pollute. On top of all that the polluters in the older areas critcize and denounce the new contruction for destroying the enviroment. Ain't America great!
If companies and farms were more careful with runoff, there would be no need for such taxes.
Everyone wants a cleaned up Chesapeake Bay - of course, no-one wants to pay for it. What a surpise. I suppose that's what democracy is really all about - trying to get as much as you can from everyone else while paying as littles as possible yourself.
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