Commentator Mileah Kromer makes it clear that her polls indicate people are dubious of whether stormwater runoff contributes to pollution in the Chesapeake Bay ("The rub of the 'rain tax,'" March 8).
Had she asked if the millions of gallons of raw sewage spilled by state treatment plants contributed to bay pollution I believe polls would have been markedly skewed toward one of the major culprits of pollution of our bay.
Ms. Kromer speaks of the "relatively small monetary cost" of the stormwater fee, by which she presumably means the cost to homeowners. The rub is that our "business friendly" state and Baltimore County assess $1,500 per acre to businesses that have no vote on Election Day.
Voters, however, will end up footing the bill for their grocer sitting on 20 acres and paying $30,000 more for his roof and parking lot — and that ought to rub them the wrong way.
Dennis R. McCartney, Baltimore