The complaints I see about the changes in trash collection seem to be coming from an older generation (which I might consider myself part of) rather than those who actually pay for the "service". If you aren't earning an income you aren't paying for the collection of your trash, except for the "recycling fee". Wouldn't it make more sense (and be fairer) if trash collection was either done by private enterprise (and everyone get the best deal they can, even if they have to pay more), or through a real estate levy where everyone who owns a home, or rents (through increased rent) pays the tax? If our complaints are about "fairness" then right now things aren't "fair".
Would It Be Cheaper Per Family If We Paid For Our Trash Pickup Through Real Estate Taxes?
By OldSouthEndBrdy - Posted on May 3rd, 2008
Since I don't actually live in the City of Toledo, I guess it never occurred to me that the trash collection fees came out of the income tax. I agree with you that it seems like an odd source of funding for residential trash collection.
So technically I guess I'm paying for the residential trash collection in Toledo too. (I work downtown and city income tax is withheld from my paychecks.)
Back in the 1st Carty fiasco in 1997when your boy Carty suggested PRIVATIZING TRASH PICKUP.
"Article ID: 9703060288
Published on March 6, 1997, Blade, The (Toledo, OH)
PRIVATIZING TRASH
THE timing isn't the best, but the idea is sound. Mayor Carty Finkbeiner is proposing that Toledo's garbage pick-up be put out for bids from private contractors. The notion was advanced in a letter from the mayor to labor leaders in response to stalled contract negotiations between the city and Teamsters Local 20, which represents the city's refuse collectors. A big issue: overtime payments.
The union, not surprisingly perhaps, views the plan as a..."
Thank God for the "Strong Mayor" billboard back then. Remember those? "Carty for Strong Mayor. SCARY ISN'T IT?" That billboard and the resulting election made me move OUT OF TOLEDO