What if a property owner isn't? How intrusive do you want the government to be? Are you suggesting inflating the size of the government to whatever size necessary to harass property owners who aren't up to your standards?
And you forget another thing. Travel is free in the USA. That's a constitutional right. City people could drive to your street and leave their trash there as you could drive to a Minneapolis street and create a mess with little or no danger to yourself.
So, now what do we do? If it isn't really "my neighbor's mess", what is the solution?
As for renting a personal truck, I know that will sell big-time in the suburbs, but it seems foolish to pay those rates if as a city we can OWN our truck or even have our county own it and serve everyone. This "rent it yourself" tendency suggests a small-business outlook, which ignores everything humanity has learned about economies of scale. If there are cities in our region who have decided to do it that way, the leaders must have been hampered by the general attitude of non-cooperation between residents. I agree that the best solution is personal if your problem is UNIQUE. But there's nothing unique about cleaning up trash. It is mundane and predictable problem which is most economically handled by permanent solutions.
Those who live in distrust of others pay monetarily for their condition.
Jim Mork Cooper
"Only a LUNATIC would cut schools to buy more bombs".
"We hold these truths to be self-evident....that governments are formed, deriving their just powers by the consent of the governed" Declaration of Independence
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