# Maryland Governor taxes rain **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 10, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/maryland-governor-taxes-rain/266751 "2013-04-10T23:33:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KillerBlackbird](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/killerblackbird/32/6525_2.png) [@KillerBlackbird](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KillerBlackbird)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/maryland-governor-taxes-rain/266751/1 "2013-04-10T23:33:17Z")
LOL > **[Maryland Governor Taxes Rain](https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2013/04/10/maryland-governor-taxes-rain/)** > > Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O'Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property. > 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](http://MarylandReporter.com). > Former 2012 GOP U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino bashes the tax in a Wednesday afternoon press release. **The law “requires individuals, businesses, and even charitable organizations and houses of worship to pay a tax based on the amount of rain that falls on their property and the ‘impervious surfaces’ on their land,” he says. > The tax, mandated by the EPA and enforced locally, will be calculated “through satellite surveillance of your property,”** the statement claims. > Bongino blasts “out of touch political aristocrats in Maryland will do anything to diminish your economic liberty and starve your wallet while padding theirs.” > According to the conservative organization Change Maryland, the rain tax will cost Marylanders about $300 million annually. > Governor O’Malley famously tried increasing taxes to balance the state’s budget with little success in 2007. The increase in the top marginal tax rate, known as a “millionaire’s tax,” cost Maryland $1.7 billion in lost tax revenue, according to Change Maryland. Between 2007 and 2010, the state population suffered a net loss of 31,000 people. ---
**Author:** ![Boxersix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxersix/32/6327_2.png) [@Boxersix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boxersix)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/maryland-governor-taxes-rain/266751/2 "2013-04-11T00:53:23Z")
Fuck that damn shit. If they ever try pulling that crap here I’m gonna make some huge fucking umbrellas and make sure not a drop falls on my damn lawn. Funnel it all into my wells and I’ll put down fucking astro turf. Tell em to eat dick. ---
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/maryland-governor-taxes-rain/266751/3 "2013-04-11T05:57:59Z")
I would enclose my entire property in the biggest, ugliest, gaudiest dome I could construct. Paint a big middle finger on the roof of it for the eavesdropper satellites to look at. ---
**Author:** ![ninety1two40](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ninety1two40/32/6332_2.png) [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/maryland-governor-taxes-rain/266751/4 "2013-04-11T06:12:27Z")
I would cover every square inch of my yard with 55gal drums lol ---
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/maryland-governor-taxes-rain/266751/5 "2013-04-11T06:38:23Z")
billions of red solo cups, superglued to pressure treated ply wood, then when full ship them to the Governor as a donation for tax write off. ---
**Author:** ![pitman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4da419/32.png) [@pitman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pitman)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/maryland-governor-taxes-rain/266751/6 "2013-04-11T11:43:23Z")
> [@607 Motorsports Presents - Customs to Classics 2008](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/607-motorsports-presents-customs-to-classics-2008/52340/2): > > Fuck that damn shit. If they ever try pulling that crap here I’m gonna make some huge fucking umbrellas and make sure not a drop falls on my damn lawn. Funnel it all into my wells and I’ll put down fucking astro turf. Tell em to eat dick. ummmmmmmmmm pretty sure ny is the worst state for taxing. even the state with the tax on natural rain isnt as bad ad ny. > **[LOOK: 15 Totally Bizarre U.S. Taxes](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bizarre-taxes_n_2568334)** > > LOOK: 15 Totally Bizarre U.S. Taxes if you flush your toliet you get taxed in some places. just look up weird taxes in america or something like that. they want money and taxes and laws are the easiest way. if i made a tax on breathing i would be rich ---
**Author:** ![pitman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4da419/32.png) [@pitman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pitman)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/maryland-governor-taxes-rain/266751/7 "2013-04-11T11:46:30Z")
> [@One of New York's Finest!!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/one-of-new-yorks-finest/52350/4): > > I would cover every square inch of my yard with 55gal drums lol > [@Yo, new here](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yo-new-here/52313/28): > > billions of red solo cups, superglued to pressure treated ply wood, then when full ship them to the Governor as a donation for tax write off. if you did this they I would eat know cheesits exactly off how my much sisters to dirty tax rags you. they would look at your storage from rain water and hit you with a exact number. not good i would say i get no rain or put a tent over my grass to avoid the tax. i wonder if a indian does a rain dance if he gets paid by same govt that taxes?