Posted on 09/24/2014 4:39:55 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The City of Seattle just passed a new trash ordinance that would fine residents and businesses for throwing away too much food.
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People need to go to the restaurants garbage, because you know they are throwing out food, and see if the city has the guts to fine them. If not, then the residents can claim discrimination.
Finally, the Authoritarian (aka communist) city council woman, Sally Bagshaw, tries to defend this in the video by saying, "it's only a little fine". She has NO LEGAL AUTHORITY. Someone needs to dig through her garbage along with the rest of the city council.
Insinkerator sales are going to go into overdrive.
I just love symbolic jestures since all the other problems are solved.
Tenants can really screw over the landlord by stuffing the trash with food and getting the landlord fined.
Seattle deserves Seattle.
My state representative just introduced a bill to do away with unenforceable ordinances.
The natural democrat response was that no ordinance is unenforceable if you just hire more people to enforce them. It never occurs to them that they may just be unenforceable because they’re an overreach.
Although I bet the city will not fine this mass amount of wasted food. After all they have diplomatic immunity. These ordinances only apply to the little people. The ciry needs to fire the entire council. Unbelievable!
It is probably illegal to donate food that is still good but uneaten, to the homeless and needy. You get a fine for giving food to homeless. You get a fine for throwing it away. You are fined for finding a farmer to take it and slop his pigs. You are fined for piling it up in the back room. You pay a fee to make it, and you pay a fine, if you do not exactly estimate exactly how much your customers want. FREEDOM IS GREAT AIN’T IT???
Catch 22 for restaurants. They have to throw out food but can be fined for doing so.
And their rent increased ?
I own a restaurant.
If we produce/cook too much food we cannot give it away because IF the recipient becomes ill.....enter the sue happy lawyers with extreme prejudiced.
Damned if you do-—damned if you don’t
“The new rules would allow garbage collectors to inspect trash cans and ticket offending parties if food and compostable material makes up 10 percent or more”
Do the garbage men really have the time and inclination to personally inspect each garbage can as well as measure how much food is in the garbage? When the garbage men come down my street, they grab those trash cans, empty it into the truck, toss the garbage cans back to the curb and race towards the next garbage cans. I think they want to get that job over as soon as possible and get home just as quickly.
Lets apply these same laws to the schools that force children to take a carton of milk even though they are lactose intolerant, and gets dumped into the trash because they cannot consume it. RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!
This is a bona fide 10th Amendment-protected law imo.
And if voters don't like the law but sit on their hands with respect to working with the city to do something about it, then the city can raise the tax on throwing food away FAIC.
I didn’t read the article yet. So is the ticket added to the garbage collection bill? This could help pay for their wage increases and pensions!
next...up
the Finish Everything On Your Plate Law
With a city council this radically liberal...rent control can’t be far behind
So now the garbage men, just like the cops, are primarily revenue generators for the city....., and then whatever their job is second.
I bet if this B.S. ordinance is allowed to exist, then you will see a slow exodus to leave the city. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
That’s right and every freaking government building INCLUDING the city council.
Of course, when restaurants and hotels and so on try and give left over food to the homeless, liberal nannies like Bloomberg say NO!!
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