Taxing Residents to Death: Open Space Tax

 The Karnataka government is playing with the health of all life by taxing open space of our houses. Plant life today is rare in Mysuru,with open spaces built up into concrete monstrosities with multiple stories. Pollution is preventing us from breathing. Water is polluted. Sewage rivers in Mysuru is the stinking norm. MCC has lost civic sense and is acting as a livery implementing the retrograde tax orders issued thoughtlessly by a government which is bent upon ruining the health of nature itself. The government is causing the pandemics to be more aggressive by destroying the immune system with filthy air, water and soil. A tree transpires its own weight of water in a day. Thus a tree recharges the groundwaters to the extent of Rs. Four lacs per year(See derivation below). When our gardens recharge the wells, the level of water is maintained. We can then have drinking water for our families produced by our gardens. When houses have gardens, they give us health. Instead of taxing us to death, the government should give credit. There is a big precedent for this. It is not as if the governments have been heartless in the matter. When the Tatas at their Mithapur chemical plant saved some 50 percent of the fossil fuel way back in the fifties and sixties, and applied to the government for credit for such saving, the government duly recognized their feat and are giving them credit for fuel saved, not taxing them for saving so much mining and waste of precious forests! Rescind your order now and follow the ways of good governance that you yourself have set as precedent. Contribute to the mitigation of climate change.  This way the government will ensure the health of mother earth. Instead of adding fuel to the fire of covid 19, ensure our health by doing your Karma truthfully. Your Karma is clear: You return the service we are rendering to mother earth by trees in our properties by giving us credit for doing our Karma which, as the Gita says, is by being the genesis and support of all life. Celebrate Dasara in a non-invasive way. See a portion of My Garden below.

The First estimate calculations buttressing the above submission.

9 OCT 2021