Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corporate to Corporate Report.com.

I'm James Eppelato from Mediamonarchy.com. Dozens of national emergencies have been in effect for decades.

We've got that story. Plus, students getting paid to catch diseases for the Republic of Scientism.

But first, even George Harrison didn't think of this one for the taxman, James.

New Jersey wants to tax the rain.

Democrat New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy poised to sign a rain tax,

and that is the hashtag that's been trending all week,

passed by the state legislature back on January 31st. The law allows each of the state's

565 municipalities to set up their own public stormwater utility. The new bureaucracies

will build and manage sewer systems to treat pollutant-filled stormwater runoff.

Under the law, the utilities can levy steep fees on properties with big parking lots, driveways, buildings, which create the most runoff because they don't absorb the rain.

I think that's the logic behind this whole thing.

Of course, the state will also scoop in to take 5% of all those proceeds. The idea

for this new fee goes back to 2010 when constitutional lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner that

just got millions for speaking to Boeing, Barry Satoro's Environmental Protection Agency,

ordered states whose rivers and streams flow into the Chesapeake Bay, which is basically Maryland, Virginia, that whole area back east, to drastically cut sediment pollution.

This is the sort of literal swamp of the District of Criminals, or if you recalls, Lisa Simpson called it cesspool on the Potomac, James, but as far as New Jersey goes, it's pretty amazing. So,

before I throw it back to you, you know, I lived in Oregon for a long, long time. My brother

actually lives in New Jersey. Those two states are pretty much the only two states in America

where it's illegal to pump your own gas. And actually, Oregon has actually relaxed those

laws a little bit. But those two states on the

opposite sides of America both kind of keep pace of just ridiculous taxation. You've heard of this

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