Just heard today that there is a fela down southern maine wants to start taxing toilets!! $600 for residential and $1000 for businesses!! Figures it would stop urban sprall. We figure if they do tax us for the toilet, we'll just haul it out and give the dang thing to em!!! And take the $600 and build a fancy out house instead. How warped can people's minds get? Tax a toilet. Give me a break

-- michelle (tsjheath@ainop.com), March 17, 2001

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Thats too funny!!! i can see that one now. About 10 yrs agon or so the former gov of nYS, mario Coumo wanted to place a tax on tires and on newborn babies. The st was so broke. Never did implement the baby tax, I don't thin.

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), March 17, 2001.

This week was Town Meeting and School Board meeting in our town. The town has grown so much that we had to build a High School two years ago($26 Million) and we just voted down a $ 9 million expansion to the grade school. What did voted in was an impact fees on new houses. Now if you want to build, you will pay the normal $2,000 to $3,000 building permit fee, PLUS the new impact fee of $9,000, no matter the value of the house. It may bad, but when your property taxes in the last five years have gone from $1,300 per year to $3,000 last year, to $4,000 this year, something had to be done. This is a town of only 8,000 residence, including children.

-- David in NH (grayfoxfarm@mcttelecom.com), March 18, 2001.

Sounds like time to move to the country (again), Homeschool, and let the new school fall apart...

-- Ed Copp (OH) (edcopp@yahoo.com), March 18, 2001.

The toilet tax is indeed being presented here in Maine, along with deposits on cigarette butts, and outlawing loose cats. Our town donations to the school district went up 64% in the last 5 years and is going up again this year.

-- Epona (crystalepona2000@yahoo.com), March 18, 2001.

just yesterday i talked to a resturant owner nearby and he said that some places in southern maine are already being taxed for toilets. The officals figure if you can afford a 3 bathroom house or more you can pa y more taxes. And yes some people do want to have a returnable on cig. butts. GROSS. they figure if people could get money back on these, the ground would be picked clean. The people who make up new bills to try and pass must have lots of time on their hands!

-- michelle (tsjheath@ainop.com), March 19, 2001.

As far as potty taxes, that stinks!

I'm all for the cigarrette butt fee!

Just look at the ground of any major intersection.

My Planet is not an Ashtray!

-- (perry@ofuzzy1.com), March 20, 2001.

Geeezzz... We just got rid of pay toilets at the train stations... What'll they think of next??

What would they do about a composting toilet.... hmmmmm....

-- Sue Diederich (willow666@rocketmail.com), March 20, 2001.

Michelle, you have to realize that the nut case who proposed the "toilet tax" (actually, it was an impact fee on new houses based upon the number of toilets) is from Cape Elizabeth, the wealthiest town in the state. To my knowledge, there is no municipality in Maine that presently has such a tax or anything close. Of course, the Feds have told us how big our toilet tanks can be, leading to a black market in Canadian toilets. These are the sorts of things that made me realize I am a Libertarian! GL.

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), March 21, 2001.

We just had our annual town meeting here in Penobscot, Me. and the toilet tax and the cig. butt subjects were big jokes. 'Course my town is only about 900 folks. I think the whole idea is DUMB, but I wouldn't hesitate to go back to an outhouse if need be to pee!! Maybe I'll head further north!

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), March 21, 2001.