re: #130 danarchy

What is the difference if the government does it or contracts someone to do it? I mean I know that the company that picks up my trash is Harvey, but I have never made a payment to them or had to call them to deal with a service issue, they are paid out of my taxes and the town deals with them directly, therefore government service.

Is this not how it works in most places? I’ll be honest, I always just assumed it was since it just makes sense, but maybe that is just a Massachusetts thing.

Where I live in California, the city contracts out to a company called Republic Services, but individual home owners have to pay Republic services a fee for trash+recycling+organic waste pickup. The fee might be city negotiated. When I was earlier renting an apartment, it was always covered in my rent.