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Growth of E-Waste May Lead to National 'E-Fee'
jcatcw writes "A bill in Congress would add a recycling charge to the cost of laptop PCs, computer monitors, televisions and some other electronic devices, according to a story at Computerworld. The effort to control what's called e-waste could lead to a national 'e-fee' that would be paid just like a sales tax. Nationwide the cost could amount to $300 million per year. Already, California, Washington, Maryland and Maine have approved electronics recycling laws, and another 21 states plus Puerto Rico, are considering them."
Of all the things that they can and do tax, now they want to put a tax on recycling? Don't we already have plants that do recycling? I know I already pay fees to have my garbage and recycling picked up and processed-- I sure don't want to pay a second fee on my electronics. I don't care if the tax is no more than 10$ like the article says, it's an additional grievance that I certainly don't want to deal with. Either they have the means to recycle the sorts of material that are in electronics, in which case the fees I already pay for recycling can cover that, or they don't have the means to recycle this stuff. In that case, they need to quit their porkbarrelling and use some already existing tax money to get that infrastructure in place and then come back to me.
Well, part of my post might be a bit foreign to the way your citizens act.. Quite a few people in rural places just dump their trash over a ridge or down a stream, hoping for it to go "out of sight". Recently, we had some assholes do the "fill truck with garbage, open tailgate, hit the accelerator" gag near our land and spread probably about 100 lbs of garbage.
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Also, I'm extremely skeptical of any new taxes, knowing how much wasting our government can do. Perhaps you didnt hear of it, but when Bill Clinton was in office, there was a national story of a toilet seat that cost 5000$ (notice that Clinton was not involved in that price, but indicates the date). Evidently, Air Force 1 couldnt use just any standard seat, so one had to have been crafted.
It would be nice to see a smallish government that cares for its citizens by not squandering money and treating the people like buffoons. Then again, I guess I could move to Ireland
What the fuck is with this "e" bullshit?
what once was a passing fad has turned itself upside down (not unlike the "i" phenomenon)
Before you know it...
e-blood
e-murder
e-cstasy
omg. The roots were always there.
Of course, ecstasy might have provided something a little smarther than such an annoying prefix...
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