Peachtree City is a beautiful community, and on the whole, most of the members of the community are mindful of what a great place it is to live and be a part of such a place. However, it seems that there are parents that never taught their children to be respectful of other people's property.

They provide golf carts to their offspring, and cars to go to the fast-food establishments where they consume the food, but it is a burden to carry the resulting trash, bottles, food containers, etc., to a trash can. We can only assume their homes resemble the same trashed appearance, so they don't care to get up and place it in the containers the city has provided.

Maybe if it hit in the pocketbook, they would have some respect. An ordnance that would impose a 25-cent charge on each and every item a carried out to help defray the cost of city workers hired to pick up the trash on the streets and cartpaths. Maybe this is too big brotherism for the city to impose this burden. It has worked in other communities and passed the legal tests. Why should the good citizens have to carry the tax burden.

Bill Aleshire
Peachtree City

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