{"id":115636,"date":"2019-02-05T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=115636"},"modified":"2019-02-06T06:57:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T10:57:48","slug":"only-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=115636","title":{"rendered":"Only in New Jersey!"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Jersey To Implement Rain Tax<\/h1>\n

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Many high tax, big government, leftist states in the union have had major financial hardships as in\u00a0New York tax revenue is declining<\/a>\u00a0as concerns grow over troubles in the upcoming budget, and in\u00a0New Jersey, the state has the worst finances in the union<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The financially troubled states have had to come up with new ways to gather more revenue. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) is close to signing a bill forcing New Jersey residents to pay a tax whenever it rains.<\/p>\n

The reasoning for the new tax is to protect New Jersey\u2019s streams, rivers, and bays from potentially toxic storm runoff from salt and lawn fertilizers. Most of the salt on the road comes to melt the snow and it is employees of state and local government\u2019s who put the salt on the ground.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maryland, under Governor Martin O\u2019Malley (D), tried to institute a rain tax, but it failed and was later repealed.<\/p>\n

The bill<\/a>\u00a0calls for the creation of local or regional stormwater utilities, giving local counties and municipalities the power to collect a tax from properties with large paved surfaces such as parking lots, CBS2\u2019s Meg Baker reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all the salt that we\u2019ve had on roads recently, that\u2019s all running into the sewer\u00a0systems<\/span><\/span>. So you can\u2019t ignore problems because they don\u2019t go away,\u201d Senate President Steve Sweeney said. If the salt wasn\u2019t used to melt the ice in a state like New Jersey, then the driving conditions would be very deadly.<\/p>\n

Sweeney that most states have stormwater utilities that collect and filter runoff from the storms but those states don\u2019t institute taxes on rain and the one state who tried it failed.<\/p>\n

As the financial situation in high tax big government left wing states gets worse, policymakers in Washington will have to start to ponder what to do if the unthinkable occurs and some of these states completely go broke.<\/p>\n

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