Comments on: City Commission Votes to Resume Utility Disconnections https://tallahasseereports.com/2021/02/22/city-commission-to-consider-resuming-utility-disconnections-establish-payment-agreements/ Online News Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:40:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jim M https://tallahasseereports.com/2021/02/22/city-commission-to-consider-resuming-utility-disconnections-establish-payment-agreements/#comment-250804 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:40:09 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=219478#comment-250804 Time to pay the piper it seems. My wife and I were just discussing this and the moratorium on rent payments. It seems that both moratoriums are about to end and who really pays? No free lunch comes to mind. The poorest and the unlucky will be hit the hardest again. I wonder how many people chose to go deeper that could have paid their bills! I don’t blame those that could not pay the bills. They need a hand and should get it, but those that took the easy way (like the liberal states and cities) should not be bailed out.

]]> By: Edward Lyle https://tallahasseereports.com/2021/02/22/city-commission-to-consider-resuming-utility-disconnections-establish-payment-agreements/#comment-250472 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:30:21 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=219478#comment-250472 Interesting enough, I came across this meeting while channel surfing and decided to watch for a few, and I happened to watch this issue. I must admit I was taken aback at the nearly $10-million in delinquency figure. This cannot be good for the City’s Bond Rating. About $60-million of our tax dollars have already been given to Leon County for this specific purpose, 2 stimulus checks have also been disbursed, and $2400 extra per month in unemployment… and people still aren’t paying their bills? Take one guess who will end up picking up the tab for these deadbeats.

Credit where due, both Richardson and Williams-Cox made excellent points in their arguments in favor of ending this ridiculous moratorium. Even Porter seemed to get the pragmatics of the issue. However, I do have just one question for Matlow… “Have you been handing out pizzas to Tallahassee residents every day and running tabs for those people for over a year – and – expecting them to pay up when they get the ‘next’ stimulus check?”

Again, if you ran your business like politicians run our government… you’d have no business at all.

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