Reminds me of when I read my water bill. They charge for water usage and waste disposal, then they nickel and dime me six or seven ways with garbage like a maintenance fee, city fee, zone fee, disposal fee, environmental fee...
I am in the same boat, fees and taxes jack my minimal water & sewage bill up to $90+ a month.
Public works has been a traditional vehicle for graft and corruption for millennia. Hell, it is a near certainty that someone was grafting off the construction of the pyramids in ancient Egypt.
Reminds me of when I read my water bill. They charge for water usage and waste disposal, then they nickel and dime me six or seven ways with garbage like a maintenance fee, city fee, zone fee, disposal fee, environmental fee...
I am in the same boat, fees and taxes jack my minimal water & sewage bill up to $90+ a month.
Public works has been a traditional vehicle for graft and corruption for millennia. Hell, it is a near certainty that someone was grafting off the construction of the pyramids in ancient Egypt.
Then they promote water conservation.
Followed by raising sanitation water levies when water usage rates go down.