Cynthetiq

Yes, in some counties you are to pay for biohazard cleanup. Not saying that the rapee has to have a check in hand, what I'm saying is that it costs something and the money doesn't magically come out of thin air. People are billed for services rendered all the time. This is from the rapekit to the professionals who do the exams and evidence gathering. There is a cost for their time, billable hours that are charged against something, somewhere.

Again, saying that "you've got to have check in hand" is trying to make this more emotionally charged than it is. People get services, and get a bill in the mail payable sometime in the future. Sometimes, hospitals eat costs, that's what they do when you contact the billing department and say,"It's coming out of my pocket, not the insurance company's"

Property taxes aren't just about crime statistics. There are goods and services the city provides, from police department to social programs, trash pickup to gardening and park beautification. Crime is only a portion of it. I'd like to see leaner social programs run by NGOs since they seem to have a better handle on it that any government agency, and that has been my suggetion for who pays for the rapekits, even if the NGO is federally funded. It makes more sense to me that an NGO is responsible for this as opposed to any government entity.

Taxes can only cover so much via the budget. There are constraints to how much taxes can levy and be distributed. Because taxes have not increased in comparison to the services that are being rendered, fees are being assesed to people. This isn't uncommon at all, from phone bills to court rooms. I call it businesses LYING, from private/public companies to governments. It is a TAX. But they won't call it a tax because people will be pissed off. It is a tax, ask of you can get that fee removed, you don't want to pay for it, you didn't order it, you didn't want it, etc. You can't. It's soft worded tax. It didn't require the normal voting and approvals to get past the lawmakers, so FEE it is.

Your property taxes should cover your water and sewer, but in many towns now you pay a seperate fee for your water, and then a seperate fee for how much supposed waste the water uses the sewer system. Why is that? Because increasing the property taxes so high would make people not want to move to such areas.

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