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This bill if passed would deprive low income home owners from obtaining water rights or having an exempt well.  The taxpayers already subsidize Department of Ecology and the existing fees.  This bill is nothing more than another exhorbant tax...a tax that the low income could not pay.

 This is just another way to raise taxes.  Remember our $35 licensing fee for our automobiles and what happened to that.

The next thing you know they'll be coming after those with septic tanks, then compost piles and then etc. etc. etc.

Vote the bat-rastards out

DK

Off-loading cost recoverable services from the general fund is tax relief for the general taxpayer.  User fees make sense.  Especially if they are set at cost recovery levels.  The next steps are to ensure the fee matches the cost and the cost is reasonably justified. 

Eliminating the backlog of applications is something the legislature should have funded 20 years ago.  The pilot cost reimbursement program works fine, but someone should be monitoring where DOE needs more motivation toward efficiency

grayreigns:

Off-loading cost recoverable services from the general fund is tax relief for the general taxpayer.  User fees make sense.  Especially if they are set at cost recovery levels.  The next steps are to ensure the fee matches the cost and the cost is reasonably justified. 

 And it probably should be done, but not now, not when unemployment is at record rates, people are worried about paying property taxes and the state is running at a deficeit.   To those of us in the real word, it is just another way to bloat the government and a reason to increase future taxes.

Before there is any talk about bloating the government, there should be an independent audit to get rid of ineffectualy government agencies.  Then get rid of stupid mandates like a percentage of any government building will go to art projects. 

Cut our taxes, not our rights.

Vote the bat-rastards out.