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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: 'OT] Are you ready for rain tax?
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In article <uucbis$1ure2$1@dont-email.me>,
 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

> On 3/31/2024 11:40 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> > Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> >> Sat, 30 Mar 2024 23:06:46 -0700 anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>:
> > 
> >>>> . . .
> >   
> >>> My ex has a swimming pool and a lot of foliage in their backyard.
> >>> Every year they have to go down and protest their gigantic sewer bill
> >>> – thousands of dollars – that is based on the assumption that all
> >>> water used goes down the drain.  They assess us something like one
> >>> sixth our water bill for sewer.
> > 
> >> That is truly depraved! Surely, there is some evaporation from the
> >> pool and the rest of the water stays in the pool. Charging them as if it
> >> went down the drain is obscene. Has anyone ever tried to fight this?
> > 
> > How? Taxes and fees have do not measure consumption nor benefit and they
> > are never fair. It's fairly common that sewer charges are simply
> > surcharges on water bills. The fact that water exiting the house into
> > the main drain to the sanitary sewer isn't measured is of no interest.
> > 
> > There's typically a second surcharge for "infiltration" which is all the
> > water that enters the sanitary sewer that cannot be related to water
> > bills. That has absolutely nothing to do with you.
> 
> The really stupid part of all this is they should have simply increased 
> the sewage fee WITHOUT saying "this is a new charge for being rained 
> on".  People would have grumbled for a bit and paid but the way this was 
> handled apparently comes across as a punishment for the weather.
> 
> Thought, would this new "rain tax" apply to a home lot entirely covered 
> by a geodesic dome, diverting away before it reaches the property?  :P

Okay, settle down, Mr. Burns.