Council of Howard County, Maryland, approves the making of another Detriot in Baltimore

Rainwater today, tomorrow snow, day after bird poop from the sky until ultimately you will be taxed to  breathe in oxygen or even to breathe out carbon dioxide ... but wait ... that  carbon tax initiative already covers a part of that, eh?  The left can think of nothing but devilish schemes to make their leftish governments richer and more powerful by taxing citizens.

Nice example here of  what happens when you have madcaps in charge. Within a decade this county will be a wasteland and the destruction might even envelop the whole of Baltimore and more.  I feel sorry for the residents because now their properties will be devalued .... but then these must be the same people who voted for the idiots now lording over them.  You get what you deserve.

Blair Ames writing at BaltimoreSun:

...Howard County property owners can expect to see a new fee on their annual tax bill in July.

After a three-hour legislative session Thursday that included the passage of 17 amendments, the Howard County Council voted to approve legislation creating a state-mandated stormwater fee to fund stormwater restoration projects. The average residential property owner will be charged about $105, according to county officials, but the fees are expected to be lower for most residential property owners in the east part of the county and higher than $105 for most in the west.

“It is going to impact everyone in the county,” Council member Mary Kay Sigaty said. “I believe that what we have done is to create a fair system of assessment.”
The council voted 4-1 to implement the fee with Greg Fox, the council’s lone Republican who represents western Howard County, voting against.
Fox said he wanted to have more information before taking a vote, and made the request to table the legislation, but received no support.
“I’m not convinced that we have to get this done right now,” he said.

The state's Watershed Protection and Restoration Program, signed into law last year, requires counties to collect fees to pay for stormwater management as well as stream and wetland restoration projects. The projects are aimed at improving water quality and reducing phosphorous and nitrogen entering the Chesapeake Bay.
All property owners, except state and local governments and volunteer fire companies, are required to pay the fee, which will appear in the July tax bill as a line item, similar to trash and fire fees........