Friday, May 3, 2013

Pay As You "Go"

I normally wouldn't have put this much thought into it, but for the year 2013 (in a blatant attempt to hide how much everyone's property taxes are going up), our local RM has decided to take the waste water management levy off of our property tax bill, and send us a separate bill for that quarterly.  After receiving my first bill, I thought that I might do the math.  Before drawing any final conclusions, lets start out with some assumptions.  These assumptions are obviously not all correct, but for the sake of the story, let's assume them anyway.  If you care to read to the end, I'll get the story closer to the truth (which is actually worse!).

  1. Only the tax payer gets charged.  Family and friends can "go" as they please.
  2. In Canada, we have the inherent right to pee for free.
  3. Grey water (showers, laundry, dishes, etc.) doesn't require the same treatment, and will be excluded.
  4. The average person poops once/day, at relatively the same time/day.
  5. Most exceptions to #4 can be offset by the amount of times that you "go" away from home.
  6. My quarterly waste water levy bill is $29.00 (or $116.00 annually).
  7. I will poop at home approximately 400 times in 2013.
Conclusion:  I HAVE TO PAY 29 CENTS TAX EVERY TIME I TAKE A POOP!!!

To get the story closer to correct, we actually don't have any measuring devices for the amount of waste water produced by each home.  As a result, what they've done is to prorate at a per ca pita  flat rate per household.  Since I live in a neighbourhood with a lot of immigrants that have lots of children, and there's only two of us at our house... I've basically adopted several of my neighbour's children, and I also have to pay my share every time that they flush their toilets too.  Once you've taxed my poop, and communism style made me pay when my neighbours poop... is there anything left that's sacred?!?

Please excuse me... I have to "go".

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