Garbage gnomes are raising town taxes

I just got my taxes dating from November 2007 to November 2008.

My taxes have gone up $400, why?

Was it the raise that council gave themselves? The new recreation centre and administrative building? The green boxes coming out next year that most of the people I have spoken to don't want?

Where we live we compost everything.

I don't need a smelly box that will get broken because they will freeze up in winter and be thrown around by (collections) people.

Like the blue boxes, we'll have to pay $5 every time one is broken, stolen or just goes missing in a mysterious way!

Must be the garbage and recycle gnomes.

When did the tax payers of Innisfil become the fall guy for everything that is deemed wrong in Innisfil and Stroud?

We don't have town water, and some say it is a good thing.

We are still on a septic system, which I replaced a few years ago for about $8,000. We have snow removal and garbage pick up, if and when the sticker fairy does, or does not decide to pick it up because it is not neatly wrapped and bagged.

We needed a rec centre. But are tax paying residents of Innisfil and Stroud to be on the hook for user fees? These are some questions I know a lot of people, including myself, want answered.

Ed Charbonneau

Innisfil