{"id":710387,"date":"2010-04-06T20:32:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T00:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f87\/obamas-new-tax-rainwater-41910\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:05:37","slug":"obamas-new-tax-on-rainwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/710387","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s new tax on&#8230;Rainwater!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04.06.10 11:42 AM<\/p>\n<p>Would President Obama&#8217;s Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on &quot;rainwater runoff&quot; from homes and small businesses?<\/p>\n<p>You bet they would. In fact, the EPA, under radical environmentalist Lisa Jackson, is proposing regulations to do just that. <\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the EPA&#8217;s own Federal Register filing, where the EPA generally describes the initiative it&#8217;s proposing:<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/blockquote&gt;&#8230;requirements, including design or performance standards, for stormwater discharges from, at minimum, newly developed and redeveloped sites. EPA intends to propose regulatory options that would revise the NPDES regulations and establish a comprehensive program to address stormwater discharges from newly developed and redeveloped sites and to take final action no later than November 2012. (<a href=\"http:\/\/epa.gov\/npdes\/pubs\/icr_fedreg.pdf\" >Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/blockquote&gt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/040610-obamas-new-tax-onrainwater\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/040610-obamas-new-tax-onrainwater\" >http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.or&#8230;ax-onrainwater<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.06.10 11:42 AM Would President Obama&#8217;s Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on &quot;rainwater runoff&quot; from homes and small businesses? You bet they would. In fact, the EPA, under radical environmentalist Lisa Jackson, is proposing regulations to do just that. Take a look at the EPA&#8217;s own Federal Register filing, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YNR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812056,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710387\/revisions\/812056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}