Garbage should be no different. You should pay for a certain size of container and all of your garbage must fit in that, or you pay extra. You may recycle all you wish, cutting down on what has to go in the trash can.

If you are a single person who recycles, you may be able to get away with the $10-a-month trash can and if you have a 10-member family too lazy to recycle, you may need the $75-a-month biggie.

What’s so hard about that? Why don’t they apply the same pay-as-you-go philosophy to garbage service?

Why not look into a per/ can rate?
My neighbors usually have 4 cans of garbage every week for 3 people.
We have one plus recycle stuff.

Does that matter when the money comes from the same location, our wallets? Government has only one real oblgation IMHO, and that is to provide BASIC services at the lowest cost possible while not screwing with our basic freedoms. Too often government simply passes on cost increases to the public without ever considering resetting priorities…stealing from government priority B to pay for government priority A. If one does not set priorities, then everything becomes too important to cut or change and the only solution is to pass the cost on to the public.

How often have we heard that there is no money for, say transportation repairs, the number one priority? When they say that, what they really mean is that every other program government is running has a higher priority than transportation because they cannot and must not be changed or reduced. Leaders set priorities…politicians simply pass on costs.

How about NOT emptying the dumpsters at 4:30 in the morning as a part of the deal?

EDITOR NOTE–We assume the bulk of the fees will go to Allied Waste.