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Now they want to tax water. What's next - air?


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2019 Jan 16, 4:01pm   1,610 views  12 comments

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In order to help disadvantaged communities obtain safe and affordable drinking water, California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing a new statewide water tax.

https://m.sfgate.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-drinking-water-tax-budget-2019-detail-13527647.php

"Safe and affordable". How fucking cute.

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1   cmdrda2leak   2019 Jan 16, 5:39pm  

"According to the report, the majority of Californians that lack safe drinking water live in the Southern San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert."

OK, well there's your problem. These are arid locales with very limited local sources of water. This is why they ought not support large populations. This is why their water is more expensive.

So if you want to live in these areas, expect to pay more for water. But guess what? You'll pay so, so much less for land (housing) in these places, too. Choose your own adventure.

If I lived in Mojave area of California, I'd want reliable access to booze, not water, to salve the pain of living in such a dreary, sun blasted hellscape. And I've lived years in Arizona. It's that depressing.
2   Ceffer   2019 Jan 16, 5:42pm  

How cute. Moonbeam Jr. is already proposing new taxes to squander! Give him a rattle.
3   Shaman   2019 Jan 16, 6:52pm  

You wanna live in the desert? Get used to having water be an issue you have to deal with. Somehow everyone who lived in the Mojave soldiered on before Gavin Fucking Newsome.
4   Bd6r   2019 Jan 16, 7:13pm  

DASKAA says
Now they want to tax water. What's next - air?

sunlight or window tax.

When letting in sunshine could cost you money.

First imposed in England in 1696, Window Tax was repealed in 1851 after campaigners argued that it was a 'tax on health', and a 'tax on light and air', as well as being an unequal tax with the greatest burden on the middle and lower classes.

Originally introduced to make up for losses caused by clipping of coinage during the reign of William III, the tax was based on the number of windows in a house.

It was a banded tax. For instance, in 1747 for a house with ten to fourteen windows, the tax stood at 6d. per window, fifteen to nineteen windows, 9d., and exceeding twenty or more, 1s.. The tax was raised six times between 1747 and 1808. By then the lowest band started at six windows. This was raised in 1825 to eight windows.

http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/articles/window_tax.html
6   Bd6r   2019 Jan 16, 7:28pm  

FortWayneIndiana says
He’s an asshole.

"Elections have consequences"
Citizens of CA now can reap benefits of their progressiveness.
7   Shaman   2019 Jan 16, 7:37pm  

I love how this tax is super regressive and hurts the poor people the most! Just like the gas tax. Fabulous!
I wanna stick it hard to the poor who vote Democrat, just to show them what they’ll be getting.
8   RWSGFY   2019 Jan 16, 7:45pm  

Quigley says
I love how this tax is super regressive and hurts the poor people the most! Just like the gas tax. Fabulous!
I wanna stick it hard to the poor who vote Democrat, just to show them what they’ll be getting.


Except they won't understand what hit them and will vote for even more shit next time.
9   Shaman   2019 Jan 17, 8:05am  

True. Most poor people are stupid or lazy. Too stupid to understand how to vote and too lazy to find out.
10   Tenpoundbass   2019 Jan 17, 8:36am  

History will call it Genocide of Socialists and Globalists worldwide but those that remember will call it a just revolt.
11   zzyzzx   2019 Jan 17, 9:12am  

I guess that can't have a rain tax in CA like we have on Maryland, since they have no rain.
12   RWSGFY   2019 Jan 17, 9:41am  

zzyzzx says
I guess that can't have a rain tax in CA like we have on Maryland, since they have no rain.


Wut? Rain tax? Tell us more!

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