AnonymousBy an edhat reader
The City of Santa Barbara is proposing a rate increase for water and trash services. I could be wrong but wasn’t there an increase just a few years ago?
The letter states it will “provide revenue needed to fund the cost of providing safe and reliable utility service.” The issue is, the rates always increase and never decrease.
City Council will consider the increase on June 15th but I’m curious, what’s the insight of edhat readers?
Click here for more information on the proposed increase.
When you’re taking very local cost increases as evidence of nationwide inflation, who is the clueless one?
Chilling, SBCC has some introduction to economics classes. Start there.
Lol alright tough guy
who audits their books? Given its a monopoly, it seems to me that the payers deserve a bit more transparency into their spending & profitability.
How about some insight into salaries & benefits of employees? Why should they get huge pay increases if the general public isn’t?
Yet the Fed says inflation isn’t an issue… this is the consequence to unfettered money printing by the federal government.
Notice doesn’t say anything about salary increases. Where are you getting this info about “huge” increases? Or is this just another unfounded rant?
When a Democrat becomes potus suddenly the GOP gets conservative again. Meanwhile they were spending like drunk sailors on navy ships and planes that barely work, tax breaks for billionaires and corporations, and golf trips for President Dipshit. The so-called conservatives need to get a brain transplant then get back to us when they’re done being stupid and insane.
There was no party referenced in my comment, simply the Federal government.
and you are clueless as to where and how the government spends it money.
The funny thing is, we could dramatically reduce the costs of these services if we elected different leadership. The majority of people actually want their bills to keep increasing.
Germany used to have a rule that everything they made had to have a recycling plan. That would go a long way to solving our trash problem but the hate-the-guvmint people would go ballistic.
If the City didn’t waste so much money on ridiculous studies and stupid plans they could be using it for fixing the “old and failing water main infrastructure.”