More new hidden taxation for the new year:

[4est_4est_Gump]

"Happy holidays from the Obama administration. Federal agencies are currently working on rolling out hundreds of environmental regulations, including major regulations that would limit emissions from power plants and expand the agency’s authority to bodies of water on private property.

"On Tuesday, the White House released its regulatory agenda for the fall of 2013. It lists hundreds of pending energy and environmental regulations being crafting by executive branch agencies, including 134 regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency alone.

"The EPA is currently crafting 134 major and minor regulations, according to the White House’s regulatory agenda. Seventy-six of the EPA’s pending regulations originate from the agency’s air and radiation office, including carbon-dioxide-emission limits on power plants."



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/27/e...sh-a-deluge-of-new-regulations/#ixzz2lwcGOJxR


When I was asked earlier about, uh, the issue of coal. Uhhh, y'know, under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket....
We would put a cap-and-trade system in place, eh, that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there. So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're gonna be charged a huge sum for all that, uh, greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
Barack Hussein Obama
Editorial board meeting, San Francisco Chronicle
January 2008


This is a twofold assault on The Middle Class and Property rights.

Republicans have hammered the EPA’s draft water rule as the largest expansion of agency power in history.

“The EPA’s draft water rule is a massive power grab of private property across the U.S. This could be the largest expansion of EPA regulatory authority ever,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith. “If the draft rule is approved, it would allow the EPA to regulate virtually every body of water in the United States, including private and public lakes, ponds and streams.”

The EPA’s rule is heavily supported by environmentalists who argue that it’s necessary to protecting water quality. Smaller water sources, they argue, eventually affect larger water sources that people use for recreation or their livelihood.

They're talking about farm ponds and springtime puddles here folks...

 

[Ishmael]

I wonder if a backyard pool would be considered a 'pond'?

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Mine has a tiny leak!




What about my koi pond???

 

[Busybody]

I wonder if a backyard pool would be considered a 'pond'?

Ishmael

wetlands

Marshalls in SWAT gear will swoop in

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Another run on ammo?


A hidden redneck tax!

 

[Ishmael]

wetlands

Marshalls in SWAT gear will swoop in

Cool, we get to try out the kids new AR.

Ishmael

 

[Busybody]

don't DARE have a veggie garden

is there ANY RATIONALE for this?

REALLY? IS THERE?

Florida city uproots couple’s 17-year-old garden, over new ordinance





By William Patrick
• Published November 19, 2013•
watchdog.org



Few things in life are as benign as a home vegetable garden.




But for the residents of Miami Shores, Fla., growing veggies can land you a fine — the type you eventually can’t afford.

That’s what happened to Hermine Ricketts and her husband, Tom Carroll. For the past 17 years they’ve grown a garden in the front yard of their modest South Florida home. The backyard, they say, doesn’t get enough sunlight.

But in May, the city put the couple’s garden, and any others like it, in their legal crosshairs.

A new zoning ordinance designed to “protect the distinctive character of the Miami Shores Village,” was enacted and specifically prohibited vegetables – not fruit, trees or even plastic flamingos – from appearing in front yards.

Shortly after, the couple received a visit from their local code enforcement officer. They were given two choices: Uproot the garden or pay a $50 per day fine to keep it.

After twice appearing before the Miami Shores Code Enforcement Board and being denied an exemption, the couple decided to dig up the garden rather than fork over $1,500 a month to the city.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Damned revenuers!


*spit*




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