$150 fines for not shoveling your sidewalk within 12 hours...

[kalimba21.livejournal.com]

According to the Somerville Journal, the next thing the city is trying to get approved is a standard $150 first offense fine for non shoveling within 12 hours of a storm, 4 hours for businesses. This is up from $25 and 12 hours for both residents and businesses. Repeat offense will be $300. Probably the biggest part of this is they are looking to have it enforced by the people who write the parking tickets, currently it is the city's Inspectional Services dept. who write the tickets.

Comments

Re: Well, you saw the list of salaries for city employees.

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Must have touched a sensitive spot there... I'm against using fines to pay for union-negotiated inflated salaries of city workers.

Re: Well, you saw the list of salaries for city employees.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

How would you propose to pay for them?

Re: Well, you saw the list of salaries for city employees.

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

I would propose pay cuts, proportional to income, like everybody else is having... 5%, 10%.

Re: Well, you saw the list of salaries for city employees.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I haven't had any cuts to my income.

Re: Well, you saw the list of salaries for city employees.

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

Nor I.

Re: Well, you saw the list of salaries for city employees.

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do have a sore spot for fallacies in logic.

Either/Or – a claim that presents an artificially limited range of choices.


An either/or fallacy occurs when a speaker makes a claim (usually a premise in an otherwise valid deductive argument) that presents an artificial range of choices. For instance, he may suggest that there are only two choices possible, when three or more really exist. Those who use an either/or fallacy try to force their audience to accept a conclusion by presenting only two possible options, one of which is clearly more desirable.

Re: Well, you saw the list of salaries for city employees.

[arrowintwolakes.livejournal.com]

Those who use an either/or fallacy try to force their audience to accept a conclusion by presenting only two possible options, one of which is clearly more desirable.

Such as talk radio goons, to bring it full circle.

Re: Well, you saw the list of salaries for city employees.

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Anyone can plagiarize off the web, so just copying and pasting a definition someone else wrote does not denote intelligence. The other problem is that the definition you copied has nothing to do with the current discussion.

Re: Well, you saw the list of salaries for city employees.

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

We've already established you don't use logic, so I'm not surprised you don't' understand my point. Bait away.

Re: Well, you saw the list of salaries for city employees.

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

That's OK. I'm a nice person, if you beg me, I may even let you audit the advanced logic classes I'm teaching at MIT.