Raining taxes
Tue, 2014-06-03 18:02
News Staff
by Tom Haughey.
There’s a new prayer in Maryland. “Lord, please send the rain but don’t let the taxman know it came.” You see the state now taxes rural residents in large counties nearly $200 a year for getting rained on. City folks are charged somewhat less but still have to pay the tax. The state doesn’t produce the rain and has nothing invested in cloud creation, but it gets its slice of God’s bounty. The state, of course, views this as a tax on runoff from your land that might pollute the bay.