--- From: "Ben" <bmwat_private> To: <declanat_private> Subject: Minnesota city to tax rainwater (no joke) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:04:53 -0400 Check please. http://www.winonadailynews.com/rednews/2002/08/23/build/news/1.php ---- http://www.winonadailynews.com/rednews/2002/08/23/build/news/1.php City to tax rainwater By Jerome Christenson / Winona Daily News Starting next year, rainwater will no longer be free in the city of Winona. While it hasn't figured out how to tax air or sex, beginning in 2003 the Winona City Council will charge city property owners for the rain that falls on their land. [...] --- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:46:26 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3?= Krawczyk <kravietzat_private> To: declanat_private Subject: Poland wants to know what people own Polish members of parliament apparently became angry with the financial declarations they have to publish every year. So they came up with a new act requiring everyone to declare everything they own, to the goverment. This would apply to all people living in Poland, not only Polish citizens. The extraordinary act is intended to help fighting organized crime and take the goods people got committing crime. However, the assumption that criminals will happily declare all their goods seems not very likely. -- Paweł Krawczyk, Kraków, Poland http://echelon.pl/kravietz/ crypto: http://ipsec.pl/ horses: http://kabardians.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q\clan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Thu Aug 29 2002 - 07:50:06 PDT