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

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Ben" <bmw () carolina rr com>
To: <declan () well com>
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 <kravietz () aba krakow pl>
To: declan () well com
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.

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Pawe³ Krawczyk, Kraków, Poland  http://echelon.pl/kravietz/
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