ROCKVILLE, MD (November 16, 2017) — Sean Kennedy, a visiting fellow at the Maryland Public Policy Institute, will testify tomorrow before the District of Columbia City Council regarding the city’s Clean Rivers Impervious Surcharge, also known as the Rain Tax. Watch the hearing live at 9 a.m. at http://www.dccouncil.us/videos
 

Kennedy’s testimony comes days after The Washington Post published his op-ed detailing how the Rain Tax threatens to shutter more than a dozen cemeteries and open space sites across Washington, D.C.
 

In the op-ed, Kennedy wrote: “Some of the city’s poorest churches in Ward 8, which survive entirely on donations, report average water bills of more than $50,000 a year based on the assumptions of unelected bureaucrats who arbitrarily impose the impervious-area charge on consumers.”
 

Read the full op-ed at mdpolicy.org.
 

The Maryland Public Policy Institute from 2013 to 2015 examined the many flaws of Maryland’s own Rain Tax. Maryland ultimately repealed its tax in 2015. The Institute’s reports include:
 

“Revisiting the Rain Tax,” February 26, 2015
 

“Institute Proposes Rain Tax Alternatives,” February 28, 2015
 

“Raining on the Rain Tax,” August 1, 2013
 

About the Maryland Public Policy Institute: Founded in 2001, the Maryland Public Policy Institute is a nonpartisan public policy research and education organization that focuses on state policy issues. The Institute’s mission is to formulate and promote public policies at all levels of government based on principles of free enterprise, limited government, and civil society.  Learn more at mdpolicy.org.

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