California Targets Private Property With Latest Water Well Fees, Charges: Report

[JasperFrank]

I read articles like that all the time. They start out making sense and then they don't complete the premise, because the premise was just to get you to click on it.
Though I like most stuff on NPR, they are very guilty of this. 3 /4th of way through, the narrator has veered off subject, to what they really wanted to talk about, that may or may not have anything to do with the original, as presented, subject.

 

[MossRoad]

anyone else like chili?

 

[Wakey]

We used to follow the DDT fogging truck on our bikes when it would drive through the neighborhood. I can remember someone breaking a thermometer in the streets and us kids playing with it.

Then in Florida I can remember the old DC-3s flying over head, usually early in the morning, spraying for various bugs. They planes were no using DDT at that point.

Same here. You could hear the truck coming and we'd all jump on our bikes
In the spring we'd set trot lines amongst the trees next to the Mississippi.
We had several neighborhood fish frys! We caught some monster catfish.

 

[jwmorris]

Probably comes from the fact you don’t own ”your property“. If you think you do, stop paying them rent (in the form of taxes) and see how long it takes for them to remove you from it.

They voted for the leaders that put this in place, they should be forced to live there vs being allowed to move someplace nice and ruin it too.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Probably comes from the fact you don’t own ”your property“. If you think you do, stop paying them rent (in the form of taxes) and see how long it takes for them to remove you from it.

They voted for the leaders that put this in place, they should be forced to live there vs being allowed to move someplace nice and ruin it too.

Not sure what your point is. Are you saying you feel entitled to destroy a resource because you own a piece of the surface? If you have water rights you have a deed to part of that resource. If you don't, you have no more rights than anyone else.

 

[Eagle1]

I read to mean if you don't pay taxes you will be evicted from your OWNED (no outstanding liens, etc) property. Now I think if I ever hit that scenario I would be entitled to destroy all improvements on that property before I vacate the piece of land.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

The country is full of freeloaders who want the government to defend their property rights but don't want to pay for the privilege.

 

[Thomas]

Guessing those came up with that idea has for gotten about Boston Tea Party.

 

[jwmorris]

The country is full of freeloaders who want the government to defend their property rights but don't want to pay for the privilege.

I pay for lots of privileges for others, even people who arguably do not deserve them. Would be nice if it actually went towards defense of my and others property rights though. That sounds like a great concept, wonder how we deviated so much?

In some places they don’t want a individual to use a gas powered weed eater, those same places sell the ability for large corporations to remain polluters. Live Carbon Prices Today

So I get to pay for these people to go after me, despite being a “drop in the bucket” and the ones they should be defending me from, get the pass?

Thanks but no thanks…

With just two months left in the CA rain season, it remains mired in drought. Why hasn’t Governor Newsom halted corporate water abuses?

These Industries Are Sucking Up California’s Water

With just two months left in the California rain season, water remains scarce. Why hasn’t Governor Newsom halted corporate water abuses?

www.foodandwaterwatch.org

I can tell you why, because he is not defending all of the ”freeloaders”, you pay to play. He will sick the .gov on the others, for you, as long as you can funnel the money.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Your property title records are paid for by your property taxes. If someone encroaches, do you want to have to hire your own judge and rent a courthouse? Pave your own roads? Hire your own law enforcement and fire fighters? People start griping about stuff that has nothing to do with property taxes. There's no money in reporting local government to a small audience, so people are becoming more and more ignorant of all the services local government provides. You are not renting your property from the government, you are paying them for the services that make it possible to use your property.