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Originally Posted by justjim
OP: I agree with you in principle----you shouldn't have to pay for service you don't get. Unfortunately, it appears as long as you live here in TV, nothing you can do to change the fact you have to pay for trash pickup even though you are gone for several months.
And to think that some don't care for snowbirds. Without them taxes and fees would be much higher.
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It the society in which we live, we all pay for services that we don't get or don't use or don't use very much. How many times have you called the fire dept. for example? Some have used them and were glad that they were available when they were needed, but hopefully most of us will never need their services.
The upside of a system like this is that the services are there for everyone when they are needed. The downside is that we don't have an alternative.
Some municipalities have gone to private collectors and some still require that residents bring their own trash to the dump.
In the cities and towns that have private contractors, some contract one collector for the entire town and some allow residents to have a choice. In those cases, residents are usually allowed one or two bags or a container, provided by the company, full. People pay extra if they have additional trash.
There are positives and negatives to both systems, but there is no excuse for rude behavior on the phone.