Opinion: City of San Diego trash fee plan would raise costs for everyone [Opinion]
Garbage collection is not free. For San Diegans, it’s paid through property taxes. To eliminate the so-called “free” pickup and pass the burden to homeowners would constitute a backdoor tax increase. Or do you think that the city would lower taxes to compensate? Not in this lifetime.
The claims that this service is unfair are correct. The right thing to do is to make the “free” pickup available to all taxpaying properties. That would require an initiative petition to put that on the ballot.The City Council has it backwards. Instead of charging fees for trash pick-up it should be considering providing free trash pick-up for those not currently covered by the People’s Ordinance.
Or maybe the fees will go towards future expenses, such as picking up all the litter that will be created from people who will no longer use the trash bins so as to avoid the fees. I will not vote to authorize a blank check for the city to pick up two or the future three trash bins.I find it puzzling that the article about the proposition to charge single-family residences for trash pickup only mentions additional income that would be generated by this change.
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