In The Name of Clean Water

What's going down YOUR drain?

Oh, for crying out loud....They are now passing a law which will tax toilet paper. No kidding.

The feeding frenzy currently being employed by the federal government under the pretext of climate change is set to be expanded with a range of new taxes on products disposed of via waste water, including cosmetics, toothpaste and toilet paper.

The "Water Protection and Reinvestment Act" (H.R.3202), introduced last week by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon), will be "financed broadly by small fees on such things as bottled beverages, products disposed of in wastewater, corporate profits, and the pharmaceutical industry," according to Blumenauer's fact sheet. Of course, those costs will, undoubtedly, be passed on to you and me, the consumers.

The necessity of cleaning up a water supply poisoned with the toxic soup of human disposals seems like a reasonable proposal, especially in light of evidence that antiandrogens in our rivers and lakes are contributing to chemically altering our hormones, and yet taxing us when we do our "business" seems a bit ridiculous. What's next?...a tax on breathing? Believe it or not, The New York Times actually introduced the idea of the government imposing a tax on breathing in a March 2007 editorial. Sheesh.

I've got a great idea...how about this?...how about we get the government to require everyone to use a Multi-Pure drinking water system?!

-Trina-