Why are you surprised? The City put together the least efficient system they could have with the highest cost imaginable. No surprise to a sane person, when the rest of State uses roll carts.
I believe with all my heart that Columbia residents should donate their entire paychecks to the City. If the City had ALL of the money, it would solve ALL of the problems.
They want to raise taxes because the “sales taxes are less than expected”. Could this be due to Columbia’s citizens not shopping downtown, etc. as they do not. Want to deal with addicts, vagrants and panhandlers. Lower revenues are due to administrators poor policies and other choices ie..plan fine
Get rid of the unnecessary positions created the past 3 years! The answer is to reduce the size of government, NOT raise taxes! Columbia's sales tax rate is already too high. Continue letting crime and homelessness flourish, raise taxes, and people will leave the city,
Why not cut the city official salaries by a few thousand dollars each to help make up some of the money that the city is looking for? But I doubt a single city official would be willing to do that even though most of them live better than the rest of the city.
apartment dweller and I see crap dumped off at the recycling container in my complex. And it's TRASH not legit recycling shoved into the container.
ReplyI have but it was before the 2 bag deal the city went too. I myself live outside city limits.
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