Government Efficiency at its Best

From The Sun Chronicle:

Eileen Wilbur, who has lived at 16 Glenn St. in South Attleboro since 1959, received a bill from the city Monday stating that if she does not pay an outstanding utility balance of one penny by Dec. 10 she will face penalties of up to $48, along with a lien on her property.

These are the people we want to regulate the market? The people who will spend 47 cents on a stamp plus however much they spent on stationary to collect a 1 cent bill. And the woman who claimed:

"It would be fiscally irresponsible for me to have staff weed through the bills and pull out any below a certain amount," Marcoccio said. " And what would that amount be?"

A) That amount would be the amount of money that it costs you to send the bill.

B) Nobody has to sort through anything. We have these magical devices called "computers", and by casting arcane spells with them we can tell them to only print out bills above a certain amount, like oh, the cost of a stamp and envelope for instance.

I know all of this is hocus pocus to you, because you're a government leech on the butt cheek of society, somebody who doesn't have the skills, or the intelligence judging by your statements, to succeed in the real world.