{"id":448,"date":"2010-03-02T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=448"},"modified":"2010-03-02T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:23:12","slug":"raising-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"raising money&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel for Mayor Nutter, I really do: there is no money and City Council simply won&#8217;t take on reforming the wage tax or real estate assessments and his own office can&#8217;t seem to make folks pay taxes. Few residents will accept service cuts of any sort, the loss of jobs depletes the wage tax kitty, and tax deadbeats create massive holes in the budget.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/dailynews\/local\/20100302_Mayor_s_budget_plan_would_tap_trash___soft_drinks_for_revenue__sources_say.html\">charging for trash pick-up<\/a>?  My house of four, where we carefully recycle, where we collect batteries, light bulbs, and computer accessories to bring to the recycling center, where we compost as much as we can&#8230;each week we put out a single can of trash that&#8217;s not even full.  Pretty much the only time we put out two is when I fill our second barrel with the trash and leaves that are blowing all over the street.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the various landlords around me put out three to six packed barrels each week.  Hardly seems fair that we&#8217;d all be charged the same thing, particularly when I&#8217;ll be the loser who actually pays the tax while the others will let it go.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n(I understand that a weighted system would require an enforcement division that simply doesn&#8217;t exist).<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUpdate: Ronnie Polaneczky says it all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/dailynews\/local\/20100302_Ronnie_Polaneczky__Plan_to_tax_trash_pickup_is_recycled_garbage.html\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel for Mayor Nutter, I really do: there is no money and City Council simply won&#8217;t take on reforming the wage tax or real estate assessments and his own office can&#8217;t seem to make folks pay taxes. Few residents will accept service cuts of any sort, the loss of jobs depletes the wage tax &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">raising money&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-7e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}