- $40 a month garbage fee = $480 a year
- $15 a month in tax hikes = $180 a year
- Total is $660 a year, that are the amounts that have been in the news.
Most of that will come at the back of the middle class and the lower class property owners of Houston.
Why not do like some fire departments and respond to calls for those property owners that have paid for the service? At least people will know where to point the finger when they pay. The city already charges if a city ambulance picks you up, $1,876.40.
Those that can afford it already pay for additional police, constables to patrol their neighborhoods.
Burglar alarm better pay your permit fee or HPD won’t respond.
Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn’t paid a $75 fee.
Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost all of their possessions in the Sept. 29 fire, along with three dogs and a cat.
“They could have been saved if they had put water on it, but they didn’t do it,” Cranick told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.
The fire started when the Cranicks’ grandson was burning trash near the family home. As it grew out of control, the Cranicks called 911, but the fire department from the nearby city of South Fulton would not respond.
“We wasn’t on their list,” he said the operators told him.
Cranick, who lives outside the city limits, admits he “forgot” to pay the annual $75 fee. The county does not have a county-wide firefighting service, but South Fulton offers fire coverage to rural residents for a fee. Source
I recall a person who fell and hurt her head and was bleeding profusely, but she refused to go with the firefighters. I asked her why, she said she could not afford them.
Many of our residents do not have insurance and cannot afford to pay the ambulance fee.
Maybe Whitmire is just too close to the billionaires and multi-millionaires who supported him for mayor. He has lost sight of what it is to be poor or on a budget.
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Don’t pay fee = No Fire Protection
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