I take the comment from Pamela Martin of Peachtree City in great distaste, or maybe contempt would be a better word, in her letter stating, “If people were required to pay for their trash by the pound, I believe we would see a great reduction in solid household waste.”

Recently purchasing new tags for several hundred dollars, I am expecting to see a tax bill arrive soon for about $1,500, paying 5 percent salex tax on most everything and who can remember how much gasoline tax is, and then my recent experience of having to pay the landfill to get rid of some trash the builder left burried in my yard. The trash collectors refused to pick up the trash but yet I still have to pay.

Seems to me we are paying dearly by the pound for household waste.

Bob Jones
Fayetteville

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