To the Editor

Borough’s garbage tax

To the Editor:

Proposition 2, a sales tax increase, lost in the recent municipal election by only five votes, one of them mine. I supported the proposition in concept. My “no” vote was in protest of the borough’s garbage tax.

Like all homeowners, I have to pay $33.34 per month for weekly pickup of 32 gallons of garbage. That isn’t technically a tax. It’s a fee I must pay regardless of whether I want, need, or use the service, so yeah, it’s a de facto tax.

That $33.34 buys me 52 pickups of garbage totaling 1,664 gallons per year. But the borough picks up my garbage only fi...

 
 

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