I can assure you that those that do not own property would not give a crap about drainage. Maybe you should study some history of the state and how the woods were cut down to farm here. Drainage is all property owners issue. What your neighbor does can affect you positively or negatively.Everyone benefits from it. Floodwater management is not a rural issue nor a property owner issue. Regardless of where you live, at least around here where it's flat, you're benefitting from water management in places miles and miles from your home or place of business.
You were just all over the belief that apartment dwellers do not pay their fair share for what they get now you want others to pay for drainage only property owners benefit from? BTW, apartment dwellers do pay for county drainage in their rent to the landlord which passes it on to the county with their property taxes…
The water from you property must go somewhere when it leaves your property, That is why you pay, it is not a parcel by parcel thing. It is a system…I have a creek on my property. Matter of fact I bought that otherwise worthless parcel specifically and only because it had a creek on it. Therefore mother nature does a fine job of handling the rainwater here so where it my discount? Why should my rate be higher when I spent money to own natural drainage on my ground? Why am I paying at all?