FC: Tax zaniness: Minnesota to tax rain, Poland to tax everything!

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 07:20:38 PDT

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    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
    
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    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.
    
    [...]
    
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    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/
    
    
    
    
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