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[Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth<lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> 
wrote:
> From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
>
>>HA !! In S. Florida they TAX you on rainwater........... I KID >YOU NOT....
>
> Wow; it amazes me that some places are so unreasonable., or that people put
> up with it.

Actually, that's a more sensible tax than some I've heard of. If water
runs off paved areas, then it goes into the storm sewers and causes
flooding and the need for more sewage treatment. It's a user tax, more
or less.


 Here I think taxes are reasonable for the services (or lack of)
> that we have, but still  people fight every expenditure. Our township
> doesn't have water, sewer, trash collection, recycling, police, zoning to
> enforce, etc., so maintaining roads is about all they do. We pay fairly high
> school taxes to the nearest school district.
>
My county is notorious for not raising taxes. I now have city water,
but that's via a co-op. I pay for my own trash collection and septic
system. The sheriff's office covers the county. I haven't needed them
for years, so I don't know how good the service is; the last time I
called -- right after we moved here and I came home to a burgled house
-- it took an hour or so for a deputy to show up. They do drive by and
look things over regularly (if I can't sleep at night, I see them
cruise by). Of course I pay for schools, but not for a library, which
just isn't available.

Marie