You, St. Louis City homeowner, are about to start paying $11 a month for trash service, and you have been paying an extra half cent sales tax for more cops and updated PD equipment and accouterments since February 2008. On top of that, the quarter-cent sales tax for transit started at the beginning of this month; It was passed in 1997 but finally got to be implemented when the County voters approved its own half-cent tax earlier this year.
Funds from the aforementioned half-cent sales tax that are supposed to be going to the cops and other crime prevention programs (read: pork barrels) will instead go to Parks and Rec, so that city residents 18 and under no longer have to pony up the Alexander Hamilton per moon fee to use the city’s rec centers and swimming pools.
<Church Lady> Isn’t that special? </CL>
UPDATE 7/14: Pray tell, what about the rec center sales tax that Slay told us we just had to pass? Can’t some of that money be used to eliminate this fee, instead of police money?
