Note to the new TXU, the Texas legislature and anyone who figures they’re paying way too much for electricity:
One key reason, according to reports in the Christian Science Monitor and the Times of London, that Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland agreed to a new power sharing deal over the weekend — after 40 years of trying to kill each other — was that the British government was going to impose a special water tax on the province.
Wrote the Monitor: "A failure to meet Monday’s deadline would, however, have resulted in a punitive water-tax bill landing on doormats across the province. As a result, sectarian enemies tend to see eye to eye on economic matters. Strikingly, one of the things that Paisley and Adams quickly agreed on Monday was the need to go back to [Britain] and seek a bigger financial package."
See, people really care about these things.
