NJ Rain Tax - You can't make this up(Rain Tax)!

Just when you think our politicians can't get more disfunctional, they come up with this:

Senate Bill 1166 proposes another tax to be levied on property owners. It will impose a municipal "fee" calculated on the average rainfall runoff. With this new source of funds, local authorities will be set up "to assess the potential impact to the environment of nonpoint source pollution." Just what we need: more bureaucracies and a tax on rain. The governor demands less spending and politicians like Sen. Bob Smith, D-Middlesex, the bill sponsor, respond with business as usual.

And the real question in play:

What will it take to get Trenton to stop fiddling with our lives, forcing us to leave our state, crippling our ability to attract business and, at the same time, taking care of themselves and their political buddies?

Read the entire article here.

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