{"id":1294,"date":"2009-11-03T19:13:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T00:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2009-11-03T19:13:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T00:13:34","slug":"city-of-ottawa-trashing-tax-paying-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"City Of Ottawa Trashing Tax Paying Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on CFRA, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfra.com\/schedule\/info.asp?id=7\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Snow<\/a> the afternoon host was looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawa.ca\/city_hall\/mayor_council\/standing_committees\/planning\/index_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">City Of Ottawa&#8217;s Planning and Environment Committee<\/a> plans for changing the way Ottawa taxpayers will be paying for their garbage pickup.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, taxpayers pay $86 a year for weekly trash pick up which includes rotating weeks of blue bin (plastic\/metal\/glass) and black bin (recyclable paper) service.<\/p>\n<p>However, the City is now rolling out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawa.ca\/residents\/recycling_garbage\/green_bin_program\/index_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">green bin service<\/a> for organics and they are taking the opportunity to add a service fee for this green bin service as well as moving the cost of the blue\/black bin service from all tax payers to the homeowners.<\/p>\n<p>So what does this amount to?  Well it amounts to $195 a year for picking up our trash.  From $86\/year to $195\/yr.  That&#8217;s an increase of 127%.<\/p>\n<p>Now for you aspiring socialist politicians out there&#8230;THAT&#8217;S how you OfficiallyScrew a taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>ACTIVISM:  If you live in Ottawa, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawa.ca\/city_hall\/mayor_council\/councillors\/index_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here <\/a>to find your city councilor and email them your feelings on this subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on CFRA, Rob Snow the afternoon host was looking at the City Of Ottawa&#8217;s Planning and Environment Committee plans for changing the way Ottawa taxpayers will be paying for their garbage pickup. Currently, taxpayers pay $86 a year for weekly trash pick up which includes rotating weeks of blue bin (plastic\/metal\/glass) and black bin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,39,44,54,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-numbers-dont-lie","category-officiallyscrewed","category-politics-municipal","category-politics-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}