City governments are getting creative again. They are looking for new forms of revenue in the midst of this ongoing recession. The voting community does not want tax increases. Government cutbacks are being done, but no government worker wants to lose their job. Since efficiency in government operations is not being done enough, the easy thing to do is raise fees.
A Baldwin Park machine shop gets dinged $226 by the city of Azuza because the machine shop wants to pick up and drop off and it doesn’t have a “delivery license”. Traffic citations in Montebello increase from Feb. ’09 to Mar ’09. 4 police officers report that they were reprimanded for not meeting ticket quotas.
In the last 10 years there has been a been a big increase in government worker pay increases and special perks. Who pays for that? I’ll give you one guess.
Something has to happen and happen soon. Government has to go on a diet, just like the public is doing now.
