Karthik Soora isn’t opposed to Houston’s proposed $5 monthly garbage pickup fee; he just doesn’t like the way it appears to tax the poor at the same rate as the wealthy.
Soora and the organization he cofounded, Houston Progressive Caucus, is one of many groups closely watching city government to see how it will close the $174 million general fund gap it’s facing.
Soora acknowledged that the trash fee could net $24 million in its initial stages of operation but questioned where the rest of the needed funding would come from and why, in the midst of Houston’s budget woes, the mayor is spending $60,000 in taxpayer dollars on a podcast?…