One of the biggest Choice issues right now in Fort Collins is this bizarre push to either create "trash districts" or form a municipal utility to collect household garbage.
Basically, there are a group of busybodies who want to tell you which trash company you have to hire. They've got their organized operation, orchestrating pre-written letters-to-the-editor. They've created this perception that they speak for a large base of support (yet it always seems to be the same names on the letters). The City Council has given in to their noise campaign and set aside $75,000 in the new budget to "study" trash districting.
Unfortunately, their arguments rest on taking away our freedom as consumers to choose which companies we hire.
Unfortunately, their arguments rest on some distortions, fallacies and scare tactics.
Hopefully, this little blog will be a voice in the wilderness.
