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Old 01-17-2019, 12:42 PM
 
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My joke about CA democrats taxing the air we breath was just that, but now with a water tax being proposed, I am afraid nothing is beneath Sacramento politicians when it comes to taking your money.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics...224239685.html

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2...iel-greenfield
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Old 01-18-2019, 11:25 AM
 
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Believe it... the appetite for tax dollars is insatiable...

California already has the first city to impose a $6,000 vacant parcel tax on top of regular property tax... so what another tax on water?
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Old 01-18-2019, 12:34 PM
 
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How else will they keep the farce that they're running on a surplus budget.
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Old 01-18-2019, 01:19 PM
 
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Public Sector is already lining up for a share... it is not wages per say but the retirement benefits promised... at least according to my local city manager... it is a problem that keeps getting kicked down the road.
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Old 01-18-2019, 01:29 PM
DKM
 
Location: California
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It doesn't appear to be coming anytime soon. The article makes it clear this proposal lacks the political will to be enacted, so why your misleading headline?
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Old 01-18-2019, 02:08 PM
 
Location: Sierra Nevada Land, CA
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It doesn't appear to be coming anytime soon. The article makes it clear this proposal lacks the political will to be enacted, so why your misleading headline?
Oh just yet another CA bashing thread.
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Old 01-18-2019, 05:36 PM
 
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My city has imposed a water run off tax based on property square footage...
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Old 01-18-2019, 05:52 PM
 
Location: Sylmar, a part of Los Angeles
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The stupid LA county voters allowed prop. W to pass last election. This taxes 2.5 cents for every sq. ft. where rain water can't soak into the ground on your property. Or $25 for every 1,000 sq. ft of your house, driveway, patio, pool, yard building etc.
I don't think most people understood it, or even read the brief summery.
And of coarse this money you pay just goes into the bottomless black hole of government.
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Old 01-18-2019, 05:57 PM
 
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It is the incrementalism of it all...

Family property is a wetlands... water drains to the property and percolates to acquifer... and they also have to pay a run off parcel tax where they should be getting paid.
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Old 01-18-2019, 10:19 PM
 
Location: "Silicon Valley" (part of San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA)
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We should be desalinating water with either solar or nuclear. We have lots of sunshine and we are next to the Pacific Ocean. Put the two together and our supply of water is effectively infinite.

On submarines, we derive potable water from the surrounding sewater. The nuclear reactor is cooled by seawater, so we condense some of it back and get drinkable water. The two potable water tanks together can hold about 5000 gallons. It sounds like a lot until you realize that there are 120 people aboard, and your allowance of potable water includes showers and washing dishes. A submarine shower consists of going in, turning on the water for one second, turning it off, putting the soap on, and then turning it on for one second to rinse. That's it. If people are using too much potable water, the first thing the Captain disables is the showers.

If people have an irrational fear of nuclear power, we have another source of heat: the sun.

https://cleantechnica.com/2015/09/10...s-through-dpo/
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