{"id":36086,"date":"2018-07-20T08:41:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36086"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:41:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:41:27","slug":"new-jersey-to-now-tax-water-supply-as-well-creative-greed-of-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36086","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey To Now Tax Water Supply as Well \u2013 Creative Greed of Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Politicians are truly amazing. When they need money, they are never short of ideas of things to tax. New Jersey is proposing to now tax water from the tap.\u00a0The proposal is being submitted by State Senator Bob Smith D-Middlesex. Of course,\u00a0Smith is trying to say it\u2019s not actually a tax and calling it a\u201cuser fee\u201d<\/strong> even though\u00a0you already get a water bill. A \u201cuser fee\u201d<\/strong> would be a flat rate. He wants 10 cents per 1,000 gallons so it functions more like a tax<\/strong> than a one-time fee<\/strong> like getting a driver\u2019s license.\u00a0Smith obtained\u00a0his J.D. in 1981 from the Seton Hall University School of Law. The only thing law teaches you is how to call a pig a cow and get away with it. It is probably inevitable that they will figure out a way to tax the air for making it clean.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They have in a way managed to tax sex as well over the centuries. In Nevada, they have proposed a $5 tax<\/strong><\/a> every time a prostitute performs a service. This is nothing new. The Roman Emperor Caligula<\/a>\u00a0(37-41AD)<\/strong> inaugurated a tax upon prostitutes per client (the vectigal ex capturis<\/em>). There was the bachelor tax which was a punitive tax imposed on unmarried men.\u00a0The Lex Papia Poppaea<\/strong> was introduced in 9 AD by emperor Augustus (27BC-14AD)<\/strong><\/a> to encourage marriage. Penalties were therefore imposed on those who were celibate, with an exception granted to Vestal Virgins. (Ulp. Frag. xvii.1). The law also imposed penalties on married persons who had no children from the age of twenty-five to sixty in a man. Women were taxed who had no children from the age of twenty to fifty (Gaius, ii.111)\u00a0 (Tacit. Ann. xv.19). As strange as that may sound,\u00a0New Jersey and Michigan proposed a tax on bachelor men to change their behavior.<\/p>\n

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New Jersey To Now Tax Water Supply as Well \u2013 Creative Greed of Taxes Politicians are truly amazing. When they need money, they are never short of ideas of things to tax. New Jersey is proposing to now tax water from the tap.\u00a0The proposal is being submitted by State Senator Bob Smith D-Middlesex. Of course,\u00a0Smith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5496,20938,5479,566,783,866],"class_list":["post-36086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-bob-smith","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-new-jersey","tag-taxes","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36087,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086\/revisions\/36087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}