Big-spending Atchison raises taxes 22% yet can’t afford recycling

The StarPhoenix reported yesterday on the deplorable state of Saskatoon’s recycling. Saskatoon and Regina are the only major centres on the continent without a blue box recycling program, and our landfill is filling up.

But Mayor Atchison rejects city recycling, claiming it would be a formula for increases in homelessness and taxes on seniors.

Of course, the story and the subsequent reader comments reveal Atch’s anti-recycling stance to be laughably rife with economic and environmental folly.

But even more laughable is Atchison’s audacity to champion homelessness and taxes: Under Mayor Atchison, not only has homelessness expanded, but taxes have risen 50% faster than inflation.

Given big-spending Atchison’s embarassing inaction on recycling and homelessness, combined with his out-of-control tax hikes, this newfound concern is suspect at best.