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Taxing Our Butts off!!!

Posted 34 months ago|15 comments|544 views
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Billyberoo
Cedar Park, TX
One would never think that The U.S. Government would, but then again with these power hungry tyrants in office anything is possible. There is actually language in H.R. 3202, The Water Protection and Reinvestment act of 2009, that will tax you for wiping your **** after you take a dump (sec 4171 b. Water Disposal Product).

‘SEC. 4171. IMPOSITION OF TAX.

‘(a) Water-based Beverage- There is hereby imposed on the sale of any container of water-based beverage by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof a tax equal to 4 cents per container of such beverage which is 5 gallons or less. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the manufacturer or producer is the entity that puts the beverage into the container subject to the tax under such sentence.

‘(b) Water Disposal Product- There is hereby imposed on the sale of any water disposal product by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof a tax equal to 3 percent of the price for which so sold.

‘(c) Pharmaceutical Tax- There is hereby imposed on the sale of any pharmaceutical product by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof a tax equal to 0.5 percent of the price for which so sold.

‘(d) Termination- The taxes imposed by this section shall not apply to any production, manufacture, or importation after December 31, 2015.

I thought we were not raising taxes accept on those who are rich. I think, well I hope we all wipe our **** after leaving behind our business. I found a loophole, however, if we just use the pages out of our reading material and use that. For any publishing houses, if you print on tissue paper you might be able to solve this problem.!!!
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34 months ago: Toilet paper isn't a water disposal product. And, er, I sure hope you're not wiping with a water-based beverage container or pharmaceutical. Ewww.
Billyberoo
Billyberoo
Cedar Park, TX
34 months ago: Hate to tell you the term ‘water disposal product’ means any of the following: soaps and detergents, toiletries, toilet tissue, water softeners, and cooking oils. Anything that uses water to be disposed can and eventually will be taxed.
Billyberoo
Billyberoo
Cedar Park, TX
34 months ago: As a matter of fact I just got off the phone with Congressman BLUMENAUER's office,(202)225-4811, the author of the bill and they confirmed that toilet paper is included. Anything that uses water infrastructure as well.
34 months ago: It's awfully weird to define "water disposal product" that way. Do you have a link for that?
Billyberoo
Billyberoo
Cedar Park, TX
34 months ago: Well here is the link to the bill http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3202/text

I got the definition from http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/030598.html

and called the Congressman's office to confirm.
34 months ago: Oh, I see... Actually, the definition is also included in the bill itself: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3202/text?version=ih&nid=t0:ih:81. I misunderstood what they meant by "water disposal."

Actually, looking at the text of the bill, including toilet paper in that list is relatively sensible, if a little chuckle-worthy. My biggest concern is that while the goal seems to be to induce water conservation, manufacturers of these goods will just pass the cost on to consumers, making it a regressive tax. I'll have to read it more carefully to be sure.
Rudi Stettner
Rudi Stettner
 Moderator
34 months ago: I sweat a lot Does that put me in a higher tax bracket?
34 months ago: Don't worry, Rudi, us liberal/socialist/marxists will figure out a way to tax every one of your bodily functions shortly. ;)

(OK, I'm done satirizing redstateguy).
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
34 months ago: How can charging more for soap reduce water consumption? Is charging more for toilet paper going to make you go less often? I gotta hear this one.

So the bill doesn't provide incentive to consume less water, it just costs more to take bath, brush your teeth, shave, wash dishes, wash clothes, make coffee, or use anything that contains water.

That's waaaaaaayyy more impressive than the sugar tax. I can't think of a single food product that doesn't contain at least some water, or require water in its preparation.

I can still hear the echo's in my mind.
"No one making less than $200,000, er, I mean $150,000, no wait, $120,000, ok, really this time, $42,000 per year will have a tax increase."
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
34 months ago: Reading back over it, I see now where it says "beverage". Still better than the sugar tax, cause a lot of people were planning to get around that one by drinking unsweetened drinks.
34 months ago: Great post. It tends to worry me that if these mammoth stimulus plans do not work and the economy stays flat what will be the next tax needed to payoff all that debt. Then again maybe I don't want to know that!
Billyberoo
Billyberoo
Cedar Park, TX
34 months ago: Well just think with this bill they got water; Crap n Trade they got energy (maybe they will make us wear a monitor to count how many breathes we take and cap breathing CO2 emissions); food is the next logical step.
34 months ago: I guess this means they figured out how to tax us without end. We all got to eat and drink and once we do that we've got to pee and poop and that is all disposed of via water, just like our bath and dish-washing, via water.

Sounds like a lot of batering will be going on if people are going to be able to afford to live. Of course that is even taxed according to the IRS, just harder to prove how much of what went where.

Poor house here I come!
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
34 months ago: Now at least when you ask someone to take a shower with you, you can say it saves water, and money. ;D

I'm always looking for the silver lining.
34 months ago: Does it have to be the same person every time? The wife would kill me!

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