California is looking to tax drinking water

[jimnyc]

It used to be illegal to simply collect some rain water that fell into your yard in California. They made it legal sometime in the past decade, but for specified reasons & fit into requirements. So not surprising that they now would want to tax drinking water. California is pretty much ran by idiots.

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California is looking to tax drinking water

California is known for a lot of things: Ronald Reagan, Hollywood, beaches, hippies, student protests — and some of the most relentlessly progressive politicians in the entire country.

Simply put, the government of California is out of control. In total, the state added 1,016 new laws to the books in 2019, including a silly “straw ban,” intrusive requirements for children’s menus and yet another minimum wage increase. At virtually every level of Californians’ lives, state policymakers are ready to step in and interfere. From the cradle to the grave.

Now it seems the new governor, Gavin Newsom, is anxious to make his own contribution to the ever-expanding role of government in our lives by taxing some of our most basic necessities in an unprecedented power grab.

In his ineffable wisdom, the newly elected governor has proposed a statewide tax on, of all things, California’s drinking water. Newsom plans to dedicate the new tax revenues to programs to help communities clean up contaminated water sites. Improving the quality of drinking water may be a worthy goal, but the water tax proposal is a case study in the failures of progressive policymaking.

First, critics note that the new tax would be difficult and costly to administer. Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association said the proposed water tax is emblematic “of California’s knee-jerk reaction to default to a new tax whenever there’s a new problem.”

Rest - https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/19/s...ifornia-water/

[STTAB]

Sane people are clogging the highways trying to get the hell out of California.

[Elessar]

The fly in this ointment is this:

Los Angeles, San Diego, and Bakersfield siphon off water from the Colorado river. It now
runs dry at it's outlet to the Gulf of California...thanks in part to Las Vegas.

Up North, the water from the Shasta dam is diverted to the Central valley and Los Angeles.

Water is already taxed!

Newsome was always an idiot and proves it every time he opens his pie hole.

[Abbey Marie]

Philly’s mayor got a soda tax in place, and it has succeeded- in sending folks to shop at grocery stores outside the city.

[Elessar]

Philly’s mayor got a soda tax in place, and it has succeeded- in sending folks to shop at grocery stores outside the city.

What is that one quote? Self Inflicted Doom?