Posted on 07/23/2010 12:24:20 PM PDT by tflabo
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he's thinking about plugging his budget gap by charging New York City residents a fee for trash removal. City residents produce 11,000 tons of trash every day. Collecting it is covered by taxes. But there is a proposal to separate garbage collection from general taxes, and charge people for what they throw away, based on how much it is. Plenty of New Yorkers are turning up their nose at the idea.
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Idiot RINO! Gonna charge NYers by the pound or oz? Think about the neighbors sneaking their trash into others bins.
Tax the trash between liberals ears where the supply is endless.
In Pennsylvania we pay garbage to be picked up....I thought this was normal everywhere...Instead of NY getting the charge how about Pennsylvania getting rid of it.
Methinks the East River will be a handy and cheap way to dispose of expensive garbage. But what the heck, I didn’t go to Harvard.
Bizarre concept for us backward hillbillies. We choose from several companies in the area and pay them directly. There’s even one company that supplies trash bags at a set price which means you’re only paying for when they pick up the trash. The service is like a prepaid phone.
We’re a bunch of uncivilized hillbillies for relying on a free market solution.
However I can see it being more complicated in a big city.
All those city taxes already pay for garbage pickup. An extra fee, really Mayor-for-Life Bloomberg, does he hate people that much? I better visit New York again soon before you need a helicopter to get through the streets.
Heck, we don’t even have trash pick-up out here. We have to drop it off at dump stations ourselves.
“Bizarre concept for us backward hillbillies.”
Well, up until 1980, we burned most of our trash down at my Grand-Mother’s farm, and composted everything else.
When I lived in the city (Arlington, Texas), there was a garbage charge on our monthly water bill.
And now that I finally got back to the country, we burn the paper/cardboard stuff and contracted with a local garbage company to pick up everything else.
Who would have EVER thought that you had to pay someone to handle your own trash?!?! /s
The whole state should adopt this method, and begin with some specially scheduled pickups in Albany, starting at the Governor’s Mansion where the garbage sits behind a desk.
that was my first thought. Sneaking garbage into other peoples containers is common. This will make it out of control.
How about we just make garbage derivatives for sale on the stock market?
The problem is not lack of money. New York brings in a lot of money for many sources. It is how they spend the money that is the problem.
It is time to get government, all governments, out of the social welfare business.
Governments are formed to do things that individuals can not do (such a trash collection, police and fire, infrastructure). When governments took on being the “bread winner” for a family, they went down a path that will eventually kill them. Look at Detroit as an example.
Socialism does not work. There will never be enough money to keep it up.
Someone once noted that those things governments rewarded they got more of, and those things they taxed they got less of. You can only tax producers so much before they move, or quit being producers. It is a downward spiral from there.
If a city does not have enough revenue for basic civic duties then they should begin cutting off those things that they should not be doing in the first place.
Will they do it? No, because in truth they are buying votes with taxpayer money. As long as they can do that, they will remain in power.
they will build overpass streets and build on top of the “little people”.
I’ve seen some of those famously giant rats on past visits. Those poor New Yorkers will have to fight more giant rats if this garbage tax happens.
I seem to recall that one of the richest community in the San Francisco Bay area, Marin, does that as well. They have to take their trash to a collection point (has something to do with the narrow roads or some such thing).
I’m into total recylcing myself. I take the beer bottles and aluminum cans to the recycle bins in town and return the paper, plastics, etc back to their original state in the 55 gallon burn barrel behind the pole barn. The organic waste goes down the garbage disposal. All of the other stuff gets thrown into the dumpster at work on the weekends. The thought of acutally PAYING someone to handle my trash really never entered my mind.
I still burn paper and cardboard. Kitchen waste goes out behind the garage. I share trash pick up costs with the neighbor.
While I agree with the idea, that will never happen so long as we continue to permit public employees (including elected and appointed positions) to collect medical benefits and retirement plans. Until the free money mentality is gone in their paychecks and retirements, they'll never turn away from their social welfare.
“I’m into total recycling myself.”
Don’t get me wrong, we recycle as well. The cans go out back - my kids crush them and recycle them.
But, my little town doesn’t have a recycling program and I would have to pay a different company to come out and pickup the rest of the recycled items, so into the trash they go.
Do they weigh or determine the volume of what you set out? Or is it a flat fee?
We pay where we live, due to we are not in city limits, but those in the city pay for their garbage pickup in the property taxes.
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