You might want to call your Cascade City Council member and complain about them raising the garbage rates $1, which council will do the next meeting if it passes the 3rd reading. The city administrator characterized the raise as "negligible," but in fact it is over 12% and very regressive.
Regressive is: 2, 3 or 4 residents pay less for generating more garbage per person than those citizens who grow a portion of their food, can, compose and/or employ other strategies to avoid creating garbage.
When my garbage/recycling containers were frozen to the ground from mid-January to the 1st of March I couldn't even move them to do so and they weren't totally full then.
Of course, it is more difficult to come up with a less regressive formula to penalize creating garbage and reward composting, canning etc. but if council wants to give the impression of being fair, that's what it needs to do.
No comments:
Post a Comment