Finally! A Real Solution to the Money Problems of Los Angeles, the City
LaurasTheory thinks she has finally found a real solution to both the budgetary woes of the City of Los Angeles and the constant feeling of persecution suffered by many of we-the-people who live in the City of Los Angeles.
Instead of continuing to milk the city’s poorest people of their hard earned and precious money via hidden taxes (AKA street cleaning tickets):
Tally up the cost of:
1) Street cleaning machines: purchase, maintenance, and repair;
2) Fuel for street cleaning machines;
3) Street cleaning machine operators: wages, medical insurance and pensions;
4) Parking Enforcement patrol vehicles: purchase, maintenance and repair;
5) Fuel for Parking Enforcement patrol vehicles;
6) Parking Enforcement officers hired solely for the purpose of dishing out street cleaning tickets: wages, medical insurance and pensions;
7) Road repairs of damage caused by the weight and wear and tear of street cleaning machines.
Weigh the total cost of the above against the amount of hidden taxes (AKA street cleaning ticket revenue) collected by said Parking Enforcement officers.
If the hidden tax revenue is less than the cost of street cleaning and all things related (which LaurasTheory presumes is the case), try this:
1) Cancel street cleaning machines and all related activities.
2) Require that property OWNERS keep the streets clean in front of their properties either by doing the job themselves, hiring people, or by working with Neighborhood Associations (or just the neighbors) to organize neighborhood cleanup teams.
***(Note that all cleaning will need to be done with BROOMs and RAKES because we-the-people hate leaf-blowers and because leaf-blowers have been banned by the city anyway).***
3) Use some of the savings on street cleaning operations to pay for re-paving sidewalks and ripped up roads with environmentally correct resurfacing material that allows water to trickle down to the aquifer during storms and that reflects the sun’s heat on the hottest of days.
4) Use the rest of the savings to restore jobs and services that we-the-taxpayers-and-voters actually want, like libraries, teachers, firefighters, police, music and arts programs, PE, wood-shop, etc. and perhaps even to run job re-training programs and create meaningful and useful jobs for the fired street cleaners and Parking Enforcement officers.
End result: a wealthier and more productive City of Los Angeles, fewer paranoid and angry citizens, wealthier citizens, more money spent at local stores and restaurants, end of the recession, more happiness all ‘round.
