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Leftblankthistime t1_jaejq3x wrote

For the billing period, you used 1,008 KWH

You were charged 109.33 for December 13 to Jan 9

You were charged 140.73 from January 10 to Feb 8

you were charged 14.00 for a service charge (presumably for being a month late)

in December it cost a little more than 9 cents per KWH to make your electricity and between ~4 and 16 cents per KWH to send you the electricity. Depending on the time of day that you used it (some times are more expensive because more people are using it).

In January, it cost almost 15 cents per KWH to make your electricity and between ~5 and 15 cents per KWH to send you the electricity Depending on the time of day that you used it (some times are more expensive because more people are using it).

The total amount owed is the sum of December 13 - Jan 9 @ 109.33 PLUS January 10 - Feb 8 & 140.73 PLUS the 14 dollar service fee for a total of 264.06

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Flatulent_Earther t1_jaej29y wrote

Reply to comment by Bluegreenmountain in Sparta by Bluegreenmountain

Industry is already open, and it's pretty good if you like spending your whole paycheck for a meal. Mohawk House may open up again, but the owner is being sued by a bunch of former employees, so the future is uncertain for that location. There's also a pretty good taco place (Tulum) that recently opened across the street from Industry.

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cadet311 t1_jaeefva wrote

The SDA districts get approximately 50% of the state education budget. The other 500 or so get the other half. Should we support education in lower income areas? Yes, but not to the extravagance that we currently are.

“Pick what you want, the state is paying for it” is a phrase that’s been heard in some of these districts. As a result, I know someone who had a VERY nice office chair.

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pixel_of_moral_decay t1_jaebth8 wrote

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micmaher99 t1_jaeb04j wrote

The state wanting to hand out money and the amount of bending over backwards they've had to do to get people to sign up is very odd to me. There's got to be a better way to implement this system.

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Kind-Designer-5763 t1_jaeayim wrote

Sure boomer, cause your group never uses any services, like EMS when someone takes a fall or has chest pains, or a stroke, or maybe leaves the burner on the stove on and gets the fire department to pay them a little visit.

You don't like taxes move to Florida, somebody paid the taxes to put your kids through school, I bet you weren't bitching and moaning then, or if you didn't have kids, well someone paid for you, show a little gratitude, or at the very least, move out.

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storm2k t1_jaeamiw wrote

and it will continue because no one wants to ever do any of the things that would make the taxes actually go down:

  • consolidate municipal governments, police services (ideally to a county level), school districts (each tiny little town does not need it's own k-8 and then pay extra for send-receive to another district's high school), and others. it can't just be one of these things, it has to be all. you need to have fewer mayors, councils, administrative staff, and having police forces at higher levels would better spread out the cost of salaries for cops.

  • more tax sources than just the property tax. other places in the country get pieces of the sales tax to fund municipal budgets. can't do that in nj. doesn't help all towns evenly (would be more of a boon for places with big downtowns and shopping) but it would also encourage such development.

  • modify or kill the fucking farm exemption thing. it's basically an exploited joke at this point. every single rich person who has a small apiary or grows a few christmas trees on their property and thus pays way less in taxes is more that everyone else has to pay to make up the difference. budgets are what they are. either raise the money level high enough where it helps actual farmers but can't be as easily exploited or kill it and replace it with something more useful.

but given that we live and die by our precious home rule in this state, none of this will ever happen, so we all just keep getting stuck paying more for property taxes every year.

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Kind-Designer-5763 t1_jae96ls wrote

Good for you, but half the state would not get that deal, they might merge with the crap district

property taxes are the cover charge for what gets in and what stays out

sorry, not sorry

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