{"id":88721,"date":"2013-04-12T06:27:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88721"},"modified":"2013-04-12T06:27:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:27:28","slug":"maryland-governor-taxes-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88721","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Governor Taxes Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/04\/10\/Maryland-governor-taxes-rain\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O\u2019Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.<\/p>\n<p>The tax, officially known as a &#8220;storm water management fee,&#8221; will be enforced in nine of the state&#8217;s counties. The state legislature passed it in 2012 purportedly to &#8220;raise revenue to cleanup [sic] the Chesapeake Bay,&#8221; according to MarylandReporter.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not making this up.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you drive a car, I&#8217;ll tax the street,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> If you try to sit, I&#8217;ll tax your seat.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> If you get too cold I&#8217;ll tax the heat,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> If you take a walk, I&#8217;ll tax your feet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Don&#8217;t ask me what I want it for<\/em><br \/>\n<em> If you don&#8217;t want to pay some more<\/em><br \/>\n<em> &#8216;Cause I&#8217;m the taxman, yeah, I&#8217;m the taxman<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O\u2019Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property. The tax, officially known as a &#8220;storm water management fee,&#8221; will be enforced in nine of the state&#8217;s counties. The state legislature passed it in 2012 purportedly to &#8220;raise revenue to cleanup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88723,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88721\/revisions\/88723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}