Friday, April 14, 2023

Gov Signs Bill Banning Property Value Water Billing

 Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

 Governor Tate Reeves today announced he signed House Bill 698 which guarantees that water billing rates will be fairly applied based on usage.

“Water bills based on property values squeeze the middle class,” said Governor Tates Reeves. “Americans are already paying more for just about everything thanks to inflation stemming from Washington’s wasteful spending – their wallets are stretched thin. They can’t afford to pay more for the home they already own. Water bills will continue to be based off of personal consumption – just like what is being done throughout the rest of the country.”

Concerns have been raised as some have suggested moving away from the billing model currently used by water systems across the United States, in favor of basing water usage rates on other factors, such as property values. This would create an unproven billing model that would financially penalize individuals based on factors unrelated to how much water they choose to use.

House Bill 698 can be read in full here.

39 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks Guvnah!!!

Anonymous said...

Take that! Carpetbagger

SOS said...

Tate fixed the water from an incompetent mayor. Now he needs to take over Jackson. Again. And fix the garbage.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Henny Penny will have to figure out some other way to skin the people.

J'etait Charles Martel said...


While at first skeptical, I must admit that Reeves has turned out much better than expected.

The same does not go for our Washington contingent. Our senators cannot seem to find a spine against progressivism and one even said that we could consider a first strike against china. Might be a reasonable thought, but nothing to say in public, ever.

And Guest, who is apparently my friend, so say his emails though we've not met, has 6 offices, one in DC and 5 here. Why? He seems to do as little as possible except to line himself up to run for the senate and smile but is otherwise a knot on a log.

Again, compliments to gov. Reeves.



Anonymous said...

The carper-bagger water czar and Chowke are having a tantrum as I type.

Anonymous said...

Agree with the previous assessment of Congressman Guest. He is quick to show up on a sidewalk and tell a camera how conservative he is. He's also quick to sidle up to Pelosi and Schumer. His strings are pulled by a group of Rankin pseudo-would be conservatives, none of them worth a hill of anchovies.

Hyde-Bryant-Smith, the senator appointed to fill in behind the suddenly-retired Cochran and the other one, Wicker and Dicker, who rarely shows his face to the media are almost, but not quite, worth that same hill of anchovies. All three of them leave me with the smell and taste of rotted anchovies on a pizza left on a LeFleur's Bluff picnic table for a week.

Not a one of them is worth the salary + fringes we pay them.

Thompson, on the other hand has put on some really good fish-frys over the past 30 years. And I was proud to see him at Rolling Stone with summa yall's president.

Anonymous said...

In the midst of insanity, chaos, and mounting disaster in the COJ, thank goodness for the one adult who can still make a fair and fiscally responsible decision for Jacksonians without having to give a rat’s ass about ruffling Chokwe Antar’s feathers. Any minute now, town hall meetings and press conferences will be scheduled to ensure Chokwe has multiple podiums from which to castigate the racist governor, this racist bill that simply requires people to pay for water they use, and gin up more animosity towards the 12-15% of Jackson’s population which does not have his skin color.

At one point is this incitement to violence? At what point is this hate speech? I don’t know, but the vitriol he spewed out Wednesday had an ominous tone that made me feel a little less safe in this already lawless, violent, rotting city.


Anonymous said...

"Ditto" praise for Reeves.

Henifin (sounds like a menu dish of ChickenFish) is such an advocate of Boston socialism he thought MS would happily let him shape and enforce a new, unlegislated, unconstitutional property tax to burden Northeast Jackson home owners for deadbeat others?

Maybe he could send his $400,000 fee as $1,000 each to the bottom 400 derelict freeloaders who have the worst payment records for water/sewer/trash bills in Jackson.

Come on Ted, stand up for your bedwetting marxism and hand it over.

Anonymous said...

I’m 67 and live alone. Under Comrade Ted’s plan, my water/sewer bill would quintuple, and exceed my property tax by about $500.

Anonymous said...

One more bitch slap from the guv to the maya!

Anonymous said...

Hat tip to Freshman Representative Shanda Yates. She did it.

South Jacksonian said...

Thanks Tater!

Although I wouldn't be penalized by property value water billing (due to my modest, 50+ year old home)... I'm philosophically opposed. Partly because it's just wrong to disconnect cost from usage, and partly because it's a completely unsustainable model.

Jackson property values are plummeting. The few tax payers of means are rapidly becoming an endangered species, and their property is rapidly becoming worthless due to this mayor's successful efforts to completely destroy this city.

As Margaret Thatcher said, 'You eventually run out of other people's money'.

This law will help force the city to recreate a sustainable system, where people pay for what they actually use, freeloaders get cut off, and the billing system works. That's NOT what we have now... but it's what we need.

Thank you Tate Reeves.

Anonymous said...

While I fully agree that the city is a complete disaster, this is EXTREME government overreach by the GOP led legislature and Gov. Reeves. Remember when one party stood for LESS government control over people? Me too. Those days are LONG gone.

Anonymous said...

@10:15 - what / where are you coming from with that crap. Government overreach? This is not more government - this is reduction of the City government control over (some) of the people.

I've been fighting for less government and government overreach probably for much longer than you have been alive. And I actually understand what that means.

Either you don't know what this bill says, you are a troll, or you are just someone that doesn't understand the concepts you claim to believe. Whichever, (unless you are trolling) you need to go back to school and learn what you think you understand.

While I'm here, thank you Governor Reeves - and members of the MS legislature that passed this bill in a reasonable and actionable form.

Henifin, take it and send it to your Water Allicance association and tell them its now 41 states that won't allow your socialistic concepts.

Anonymous said...

10:15 PM, And how ironic that the City of Jackson has become a model of small gov’t by de facto.

Anonymous said...

Can the federal Judge overseeing the water department overrule this?

Methinks so.

Anonymous said...

Ted, we are a habitually welcoming community down here. We tend to work together in normal situations because we assume that people have good intentions, because that's the way that the way many of us were raised. But not in Jackson.

You've been inserted into an abnormal situation, and you're making it worse.

You have been exposed to the dynamics in the city of Jackson, which is the cluster of all clusters. And you know it.

You won't accomplish anything. Past time to pack your bags.

Take Chok with you and we'll throw you a parade.

Anonymous said...

Thank you, Tate! Please, please take over Jackson!

Anonymous said...

10:15 - EXTREME overreach? Other than your comment, I don’t think anyone equates passing a law preventing local governments from applying unfair taxation as extreme overreach or more government. I don’t think you do either, or you would have taken the time to explain how you came to those unusual conclusions. I mean you felt everyone needed to hear that. Looks like you just want to bash the GOP and the legislature and needed to shoehorn some bizarre rationale so you could do that. Do better.

Anonymous said...

The MSGOP have literally destroyed democracy.
The people of the City of Jackson elected Mayor Lumumba and gave his socialist policies a mandate.
This is no different than during the Cold War when Latin nations would democratically elect socialist leaders and the CIA would assassinated them or fund insurgencies to overthrow the new governments!

Anonymous said...

Thank you Rep. Shanda Yates!

Anonymous said...

11:21 PM, and get overturned on appeal. Take it to the bank.

Anonymous said...

Sit tight 7:00 PM, I’m sure there’s a plan to promote equity rolling through the mayor’s office that will increase your property taxes to be sure you pay your fair share as mandated by the big guy.

Anonymous said...

Thank you Tate Reeves and every Republican for saving us from ourselves!

Every Democrat Voter

Anonymous said...

April 14, 2023 at 11:21 PM, on what grounds?

Anonymous said...

The trolls on here are out in force. Losers.

not 11:21, but I'll take a shot said...

@8:00, on the grounds that a federal court has no reason to overturn a state law that is constitutional.

Anonymous said...

Henefin’s not bound by State Law.

Anonymous said...

4:08, maybe you ought to read the Federal Judge's order that put Henifin in place - the only state laws that he is excluded from are purchasing and open meetings.

But hell; what do details have to do with a good blog comment. Don't bother to read the fine details

Anonymous said...

A federal judge can't issue a blanket order making someone exempt from state laws.

Anonymous said...

This blog would do more for educational purposes in MS schools in a debate class. I love and am entertained and enlightened with all that is reported by King Fish as no media outlets will tell the truth other than him! Praying Fox News will pick up on some of what is truly going on for the middle income taxpayers who pay their fair share of utilities and yet are expected to carry the load of everyone else. Right?

Anonymous said...

Will they have to pass a similar law concerning electric bills?

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/income-based-electric-rate-system-proposed-by-california-energy-companies/

Anonymous said...

Paying for water actually used is more inclusive, ensures equity and fairness, and is more environmentally friendly because it discourages waste and encourages water conservation including fixing leaks.

Anonymous said...

When are people going to realize that all people are not equal. Whoever came up with that anyway? People do not deserve the same thing as other people unless they do the work like other people. Just because you breathe air does not mean everything should be given to you that other people have to actually work to have. We have too many people climbing onto the wagon and less willing to pull the wagon.

Anonymous said...

I heard that the carpet bagging water czar has a signed first-edition copy of the Communist Manifesto.

Anonymous said...

No judge, no matter how arrogant and self-absorbed, has a right to exempt persons from following state laws.

Can a federal judge order a party in a court proceeding to take certain action that skirts state law? Yes. Does that give this diminutive carpet bagger a right to ignore Mississippi law? No.

Anonymous said...

I appreciate everything Ted Henifin is doing for the Jackson Water Department and I am glad federal law supersedes state law In the water issue.

Anonymous said...

It's easy to pretend to hold the moral high ground when you don't have any skin in the game. Sometimes a mandate to "fix it any way possible" is a bridge too far. Generational entitlement will eventually either be abolished or will ruin out country.


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