Is their tax rate the same as mine? if they buy property with a $200K house on it and demo that house do they still pay the same tax as if I had bought the house and live there? I recently read that 51% of this county is within watershed boarders. That is way too much for me, on the bright side, when i take a leak I have a 51% chance it will be on watershed and will be treated and become coffee for some city dweller!!! Say doesn't nyc charge it's residents for the water they get from us? Why aren't we charging them by the gallon plus an additional fee for all the inconveinences they cause us? If you look at a map of our farmland in the '80s vs. present day it's very sad to see that so many farms do not exist anymore. Not necessarily all dep's fault but sad none the less. Why aren't we growing our own produce and meat locally? Now how about we charge say $500 million anually per reservoir and use that for OUR schools and grants for OUR farmers? NYC makes money off us so why don't we change that and make $$$ off them? Might take some of the sting out of the rules and regs that are part of life in the (unwelcomed) watershed life. 500 million divided by 14 million residents in the boroughs equalls abiut $36 per person per reservoir. So for an anuall surcharge of $70 per resident who consumes this water we could have a BILLION dollars to spend on US. WOW what are we waiting for? 70 bucks a year ain't spit when the average rent in Manhatten is $2000.. I'm pretty sure they can spare the pocket change!!!

For right now their tax rate is the same. I have been seeing articles lately where they have been challenging their assessments. NYC cannot buy property with a house on it. All structures have to be demoed before they can buy it. I wholeheartedly agree that they should be charged for the water, big time. Our Supervisors really sold us out there. We could be getting an annual fee instead of the one time payout. I think their land should have a high assessed value since it's for the "Protection" of the water. Isn't something that is protecting something else more valuable?

the dec doesn't buy land with buildings on it

people have the right to sell there land to who they want.do you pay there land taxes?cause they are a rip off
that worthless dolph thinks he can tell people what to do with there land
do you see anything being built in town or anywhere's else no
they can't even handle what is here it's a joke and the village and town boards have aloud it

So Shadow do you have kids? do you have a neighbor? If you had both neighbor and kids and the neighbor wanted to sell his house to a sex offender cuz he was willing to pay top dollar at a time when others are barely afloat would you still say "people have the right to sell there land to who they want.do you pay there land taxes"? I might not have any legal right to stop that sale but what I do have is a right to let the owner know how I feel and why it is a poor decision to sell to that particular entity. DEP doesn't buy or land cuz they have the right to..they buy it cause THEY CAN and WE CANNOT.. don't you think I would buy it ALL if I had the tax dollars of 14,000,000 people and thousands of companies at my disposal? They buy when nobody else can afford to, maybe good strategy to some but I call it EXTORTION!!! Tthey aren't worried about water nearly as much as they are about POWER I.E..Name one person who got a ticket from DEP for an ENVIRONMENTAL infraction!! I CAN'T, CAN YOU? I can say They TRIED to stop a few friends on ATVs crossing a bridge...must be the density of 2-stroke smoke was too high and they needed to spread out......Yeah sure, they most likely just wanted to abuse the power they have over so much more than water and the environment.and give them tickets for registration. insurance, operating on a paved road, speeding maybe, and cost them a few hundo each....I miss BWS...they were good guys and local and mature not these young bucks that are the only ones left dumb/desperate enough to work for DEP
DEP stopped at my buddy and gave him hell for adding a couple cups of coffee to the Cannonsville without the use of a toilet bowl, they TRIED to stop a friend crossing the road on an ATV, they waited all night (11pm-6AM) for a couple guys to come out of the woods on ATVs, they cited a middle aged couple for using a Mule or a Ranger to go to the "phone booth" ( a local spot where cell phones work) seems to me that DEP is as worried about the environment as Microsoft is about money. I guess using a little .7 litre Polaris Ranger to go up the road a few hundred yards somehow causes way more pollution to the streams than firing up a big ole 5.7L V-8 that gets about 10gal/mile. Yup, real environmentalists they are indeed. Ask a guy on a snowmobile, ATV, dirt bike etc why they don't ride over to the Rainbow much anymore, or who he does NOT want to see on his/her ride. That answer used to be the Sheriff, Local PD ot The State Troopers...not anymore now it's DEP. That's NYC folks. I see a Sheriff or a Trooper pass me by maybe twice annually, I bet I can go outside this afternoon and see a DEP car or suv go by. Its almost a daily occurrence. Why? A sheriff deputy lives right over the hill from me, about five miles up the road and I have yet to see that car go by my house.
In closing what would be a better investment to have in your community...a plot of land that you can walk, hunt and fish on (a plot that DEP outbid you on) if you get the papers from NYC giving you permission or a farm supplying you with food that you know the origins of? How about a new neighbor? Instead of NYC maybe the Jones could have afforded it if NYC gave them the chance. Maybe when NYC has no place left to build the Jones can rent an apartment in a massive complex right next door to you because when NYC went broke they sold some of their property here to investors and developers. Whats to stop them? I don't really know, maybe there is a clause on the books to prevent that but what if there isn't? If someone knows there is and can point to it please do so, a LOT of folks would like to see that paperwork Don't think this could happen? How big was NYC when it first became a city? was it always five boroughs and 14MILLION people? NO! It started small and grew and grew and had kids and they grew and had kids it's like a cancer it just comes in, multiplies and consumes. ASK the folks who used to live in towns like "Cannonsville", "Rock Royal", "Shavertown" or "Pepacton" when they were flooded in the 40's and 60's to make water reservoirs for NYC. Ask them if they had a choice? I would think one out of several thousand would have said "no"..It happened to them and it IS HAPPENING to us too..one piece of property at a time, the difference is we still have a choice...........................................................

Anybody care to share the wealth of greatness that DEP has brought to this area? what good have they done besides bust my butt for crossing the road on an ATV? Why are they here? BWS was fine for patrolling the reservoirs. Do they really think they can stop my cow crap from getting in the water. Only good thing they have done is help people out with septic systems, they do it for self serving reasons, not to be helpful. They get our water and we tiptoe around these @#$% why again? I will give my land away before I sell it to NYC for even a million bucks. They can kiss my @#$% and drink the water I pee in!!!!

don't @#$% your finger now...notice how p r i c k gets filtered so does the a. s. s. in the end. free speech at its best right here, kinda loses the point when people don't know what words I used. To many jackasses aren't willing to fight for their freedoms. Only reason they are bad words is cuz someone said so. They are curse words and I curse DEP with them.