http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2007/488 Random rants from a civil servant in Houston, TX Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:11:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2007/488#comment-7622 Houblog » Blog Archive » Trash the Fee, Part III Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:35:52 +0000 http://houblog.com/wp/?p=488#comment-7622 [...] In prior segments of this series, I’ve hinted that the new “heavy trash pickup fee” (which we should really be calling the “garbage service tax”) may be impossible to administer fairly. Today, I’ll discuss why, but be warned–there’s a lot of parenthetical comments coming because there are so many interrelated side issues, it’s not funny. Well that, and Office Depot had a sale on punctuation marks. [...] [...] In prior segments of this series, I’ve hinted that the new “heavy trash pickup fee” (which we should really be calling the “garbage service tax”) may be impossible to administer fairly. Today, I’ll discuss why, but be warned–there’s a lot of parenthetical comments coming because there are so many interrelated side issues, it’s not funny. Well that, and Office Depot had a sale on punctuation marks. [...]

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