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Why is trash pickup not bundled with property taxes? It's seems ridiculous to charge for it separately when every occupied home will generate a similar amount o
by frosted-flakes 4y ago
Why is trash pickup not bundled with property taxes? It's seems ridiculous to charge for it separately when every occupied home will generate a similar amount of trash.
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- Spooky23 4y agoSometimes there's other restrictions. For example, - In some states there's a cap on property tax increases. So the moving to a fee-model takes it off the tax levy by making it a user fee. - Bundling trash services with the tax levy is inequitable in that commercial properties are subsidizing services they do not use. A 20 unit apartment building usually has to use a private hauler, for example. - Some places try to setup consumption based models, where you pay per occupancy unit or even by the bag.
- bluGill 4y agoWhy should it be part of taxes at all? I've lived in places with city trash pickup, and places where you choose your own private company to get your trash (in the later some cheap people just drove their trash to the dump every couple months). The costs were about the same in the best case so long as the private people shopped around, and in the worst cases the city didn't shop around and so costs were a lot more.
- frosted-flakes 4y agoBecause with the information I was given above: - every household gets trash collection service, no matter what - every household must pay a flat fee for trash collection service, no matter what Why charge it as a separate fee?
- bombcar 4y agoProbably because you can get them to stop picking up and charging if you show some process of your own. Sewage is sometimes bundled with property tax, sometimes with the water bill - another example.
- pkaye 4y agoSmaller households can generate less trash. In our area you can pick between 3 sizes of trash/recycling/green bins. The trash bin size determines the service cost but there is no additional cost for the recycling and green bins.
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoYou don't want your neighbor to not have trash pickup if they live within smelling distance. You want their trashed to be picked up. If you live in an area where that can easily become a problem, it becomes important to make it regular and "included". If you have more space/land in between, it doesn't matter nearly as much.
- bluGill 4y agoI don't care how my neighbor handles trash, just so that it doesn't smell or attract mice.