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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So like Romney he can claim he didn’t raise taxes. How do you do it? Easy, just raise fees and turn services currently paid for by taxes into fee services.
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I will give credit where credit is due. For New York, privatizing any city service, even the garbage, is a step in the right direction. They might also think about cutting their sales and hotel taxes, too.
It will result in the garbage being dumped in the gutter or sewers.