Obama's new tax on...Rainwater!?

Thanks for clarifying that point, Jan. I usualy read the article at the link first
before I comment. I've been a citizen of Colorado, and expect to return to live
in the mountains in Summer eventualy. Colorado has prosecuted its citizens
before, as several other Western States have, for simply collecting rainwater.
They may have changed their law since. I still have to research further what
I've read since...I guess I may have mis assessed this particular situation.

I thought it was a tax on fresh water collection in lieu of a criminal prosecution
from the appearance of the photo per se. Fresh water is a big, big thing out
West from Texas to California. Always has been. It's usualy in the areas of the
USA which have always had ample rainfall that they seem to take this vital
natural resource for granted. With the impending world fresh water shortage
I suppose I went off on a tangent. I'll watch that next time.

Well, privitization is a huge issue and the taxing of freshwater that way ( just posted about a huge protest in Malaysia over privitization) is something we do have to be vigilant of which is why commoditizing water on the market is something I am definitely against. However, this looks like it is putting forth regulations to properly manage stormwater, which is a problem. However, you do make a point about the freshwater crisis and taxing rainwater and down the road I don't see it as impossible in some areas of the world based on what we have seen regarding other mechanisms. That is why we need conservation and proper handling of it in this regard.

Thank you for the additional detail.

This is the expose a WCNY TV broadcast had Matt Damon narrate about the
water situation in Lima, Peru. It's a classic example of what this world is
heading for. There are 2 classes of citizens in Peru. The white people, then
the native Indian population. The Indian people have always been farmers
populating the mountain area. For thousands of years, they've used the
fresh water from the Glacial melt to irrigate their crops,( which are the type
of substantial food crops humans should be preserving for seed stock as
non GMO.) The white people populating Lima decided to build a pipeline
across Indian land, and steal their fresh water resources. They could have
done the honest, equitable thing, and offered to buy Indian water. Or they
could have built a pipeline to the nearby seacoast. General Electric, the
company founded by Thomas Edison, is a world leader in R & D ing
desalination tech. Had the white Peruvians gotten their Government to invest
public tax funds in purchasing desalination technology, built a water treatment
plant, and their pipeline from the other direction, they would have had in
inexhaustible supply of usable water for drinking, bathing, cooking, industry.

The Limans routinely waste fresh, pure water by operating elaborate water
displays to attract tourists to stimulate their economy...And meanwhile the
Indian highlanders are displaced from their land. Unable to farm, they're driven
to the outskirts of Lima where they build shanty towns. The fortunate get jobs
in the big city, then go back to live in slums where the white people have
rationed them to 5 gallons of water a week which they have to pay for. There
are Millions of human souls living in slums being extorted to pay for their own
water, stolen from them by racist whites who waste it on light shows at night.
As a result, these Indian people are subjected to more sickness, and premature
deaths due to infections of their people of more advanced age. This pattern of
racial Discrimination, forced poverty, sickness & death is the least of the tragedy.

The time wasted by Corporate Fascism using the Government as a Mob to
steal their water, then sell it back to the Larceny victims to profit the Corporation
is a ticking time bomb. The French Revolution exploded because of the
prolonged exploitation causing virtual starvation amongst the peasants. When
Marie Antoinette suggested they eat cake, it was so ignorant of the life or death
struggle of the have nots, that once they stormed the prison for political
abductees they rioted openly, the lawful order of legitimate Government ended,
and the lawless injustices of the Revolutionary Council ran rampant. Here in
the USA, we'd already had our Revolution which our founding fathers won
due to the support of the French such as General LaFayette. But only 1/3
of colonial Americans were Patriots who favored breaking away from England.
The opposing 1/3, the Tories, fought against the American Revolutionary army
because, to them the crimes occurring as the result of displacement of the
Crown's law enforcement authority were atrocities worse than Crown
oppression. Ultimately, these real horror stories from History will repeat
themselves if we allow the merger of Corporations & Government to create
the Mob Fascism which will steal anything they can through Piracy, to troll
it's resale to us. Yes, water IS life. In the 2007 Documentary,: " WTF do WE
know, anyway " A bona fide natural science experiment proved that the
element created when H2O is combined is both as alive & intelligent as
humans are.Truth is stranger than fiction. If you haven't already reviewed
this documentary, Jan, you owe it to yourself to. Water is a gift from God.

" Tin foil hat wearing loons " ? " poor dumb bastards " ? Did it ever sink into
your skull that you were abusively mis addressing Current.com members who,
like yourself, are only guests here...And that this is a SOCIAL community with
standards that if you violate you can get flaged for ? If I were you, I'd watch
that propensity you have to inject what others have called : " venom ". I've
been a fan of Star Trek since 1964, but I don't look down my nose at members.
And I certainly don't feel it's worthy of any human to treat others with contempt.

well said.