Pay to dump your garbage in Knox Co.?
"Dumping for free could be thing of past"
What a miserable thing to read today in the Knoxville News Sentinel. Knox Co. officials are studying the idea of charging Knox Co. residents for dumping their garbage. As if we didn't have anough litter problems already! This is going to be disasterous. It is hard enough to convince some people to go to the dump instead of burning their garbage in the backyard, or dumping it on the side of the road, this "pay-as-you-throw" program is going to be the nail in the coffin.
The article states that currently Knox Co. residents "dump for free." This is far from the truth. We may not pay anything at the convienence center when we take our garbage, but we pay through the nose in taxes! Our local sales tax is 9.2500%, our property taxes are sky-rocketing, our gas tax is 20ยข per gallon, and thanks to the whiney "we need a new school" West Knoxville residents, we now have a $36.00 wheel tax on our vehicles! Come on folks, lets get real. "Pay-as-your-throw" is not the answer here. Read some more of my rant on this subject here.
The article also mentioned that Knox Co. residents are going to be given surveys concerning this idea. Please, if you are reading this, JUST SAY NO!!! Take OUR survey right now.
To read the entire News Sentinal article mentioned above, click here.
What a miserable thing to read today in the Knoxville News Sentinel. Knox Co. officials are studying the idea of charging Knox Co. residents for dumping their garbage. As if we didn't have anough litter problems already! This is going to be disasterous. It is hard enough to convince some people to go to the dump instead of burning their garbage in the backyard, or dumping it on the side of the road, this "pay-as-you-throw" program is going to be the nail in the coffin.
The article states that currently Knox Co. residents "dump for free." This is far from the truth. We may not pay anything at the convienence center when we take our garbage, but we pay through the nose in taxes! Our local sales tax is 9.2500%, our property taxes are sky-rocketing, our gas tax is 20ยข per gallon, and thanks to the whiney "we need a new school" West Knoxville residents, we now have a $36.00 wheel tax on our vehicles! Come on folks, lets get real. "Pay-as-your-throw" is not the answer here. Read some more of my rant on this subject here.
The article also mentioned that Knox Co. residents are going to be given surveys concerning this idea. Please, if you are reading this, JUST SAY NO!!! Take OUR survey right now.
To read the entire News Sentinal article mentioned above, click here.
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