New Taxes!
Get a whiff of this. The WSJ has written that Mayor Bloomberg is thinking of proposing for private residences a charge for garbage collection. But Mayor Bloomberg, this service is already paid for now by our taxes. I wonder if the Mayor is thinking of setting up an appointed Garbage Board to set rates. This…
Get a whiff of this. The WSJ has written that Mayor Bloomberg is thinking of proposing for private residences a charge for garbage collection. But Mayor Bloomberg, this service is already paid for now by our taxes. I wonder if the Mayor is thinking of setting up an appointed Garbage Board to set rates. This way politicians don’t have to dirty their hands when rates are increased. This will probably work in the same way our water and sewer rates are reasonably set by the Water Board, with annual double digit increases. What are they going to do when someone doesn’t pay? Cut off their garbage collection. Mayor Bloomberg keep busy. Go paint another line in the street!
FYI. NYC has been governed by Republican mayors since 1994.
AstaOil, you need to go back to the Strawman Training Academy. Of course I’m not speaking of essential services such as police, and FDNY. Although, I might be speaking of insanely generous pension benefits for said workers. And I am speaking teachers who make too much given the disgraceful performance of students. And I am speaking of all the other SHIT the City does.
Me, knee-jerk? How is that? You are the one who accused me of suggesting essential services weren’t essential; did I mention police, fire or sanitation in my original comment?
Vouchers and charter schools could break the quasi-monopoly of the public schools in NYC; teachers unions too powerful to prevent this from happening must be dismantled/destroyed.
This City, like most other cities, has been run, with few breaks, by Democrats since the early 1960’s. Wake up, and give independents, and non-socialists a chance–things can’t get worse…
Honestly anyone who will sit down and seriously argue that cops, firefighters, schoolteachers, and sanitation workers don’t serve the public, or that they’re overpaid for doing what they do, had better be a wizard free-market capitalist who can drum up enough money and time to homeschool your kids, raise barbed wire around your house, and put out your own damn fires.
Low taxes and fairly-paid public servants aren’t either/or. Time for the knee-jerk political philosophers to get a new poorly-thought through piece of dogma.
Public servants are the problem because they ain’t serving the public. They are smug, paid too much and there are too many of them. And above all people like you are the problem for demonizing people who see how awful and disgusting and ruinous things are.
“We need for the whole arrogant, fascistic union-public employee-greed-complex to be beaten back to the point of sanity.”
Yeah!
(We’re talking about cops and firefighters, right?)
Yeah, public servants are the problem! Stop ‘protecting your livelihoods’ and ‘bettering our society’ and and just let the politicians and corporations take over completely at long last.
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My only question is will our income or property taxes be reduced since they will be charging separately for garbage service that is now paid out of taxes?
The answer, sadly, is likely 100% no.
“We need for the whole arrogant, fascistic union-public employee-greed-complex to be beaten back to the point of sanity.”
I couldn’t agree with you more. Paterson has correectly pointed out the problem. he just doesn’t have the balls to do anything about it. Bloomberg apparently doesn’t have the balls either.
That’ll go over great. With just the two of us, we don’t make a ton of garbage. So, like most people, I’ll just throw it in my car and disappear it somewhere. You think dumping is bad now? hah!
Then of course who knows if this is true or not.
Ecxellent! I hope this comes with standardization of garbage cans. In most first-world countries, the garbage trucks are equipped with a standard lift, making the job very simple: roll the garbage can, hook it to the lift, push a button, done.
It makes the process cleaner (no broken plastic bags, or rat-chewed crap), faster and ultimately cheaper (anyone can be a garbage collector (not as physically demanding.)