Your Precious Little Boyfriend Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley Taxing The Heavens And God Himself
Ghost Andrew Breitbart's intrepid dick, Matthew Boyle, has broken another important story, and it is that Martin O'Malley, governor of Maryland and your boyfriend, is taxing RAIN. Haw haw haw what a dummy, Martin O'Malley. Your arms too short to tax with God!
Let us see what the Great Heretic is trying to do today:
Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.
The tax, officially known as a "storm water management fee," will be enforced in nine of the state's counties. The state legislature passed it in 2012 purportedly to "raise revenue to cleanup [sic] the Chesapeake Bay," according to MarylandReporter.com.
OH MY GOSH can you even believe it? Martin O'Malley, your tax is bad and you should feel bad!
Oh, what's the fourth paragraph of this brilliant piece of muckraking?
The tax,mandated by the EPA and enforced locally,will be calculated "through satellite surveillance of your property," the statement claims.
Oh. Right.
Has that stopped the commenters at Ghost Andrew Breitbart's Internet Sanitorium? What do you think?
No, baby, Exxon owns the sky and the earth and the elements. Everyone knows that.
[ Breitbart ]
A $300M tax on 6M people is not insignificant - and it's sort of regressive: the guys with ten-acre lawns get off relatively easy. Shopping centers and big-box stores are gonna get hammered especially hard. Still, you do want the people who generate the waste stream (and those who benefit from generating it) to pay for treating it. A gas tax would be a good addition to the mix, along with higher vehicle registration fees.
They use the mathz on the satellite photos. In any event, they don't need to make a special set of photos -- Google already has your back yard mapped out, with or without your daily activities in evidence.