Thanks If I run for office, can I count on your vote? I'm certain I'd be assassinated for some of my other views, but whatever, 1 vote is a place to start... :)
Kev. On Tuesday 11 January 2005 10:45, Kin C Wong wrote: > On 1/11/2005 9:42:17 AM, CLUG General ([email protected]) wrote: > > Charge a REFUNDABLE recycling fee. Something that makes it worth > > people's time. Say $100 per machine or $10 per component. That money > > be > > collected by > > > the government, and placed into even just a basic (read no-risk) savings > > account. Interest gained would be used to fund a true recycling effort, > > be that remanufacturing the components for similar use, or an alternate > > use effort, similar to where tires are used to make 'sand' for > > playgrounds. The recycling fee would be returned to the PCs owner on a > > reverse prorated > > basis. > > > I'm not sure, if these fees will do much good and as often with > > So that if you kept the PC for say 2 years, you'd get $20 back. But if > > you kept the PC for 10 years, you'd get the full $100. > > I really like that idea, the part I would emphasis is this tax money should > be in a segregated account. Too often the government have pass laws > (taxes) for a legitimate reason but the money only goes to a common account > and they are slow to do anything about the issue at hand. The tax revenue > for recycling should be used to fund the recycling effort and should not be > used for other initiatives. (The reason why we have taxes was legislated > to pay for the war way back when -- now it is a bureaucracy to itself long > after the debt was paid. It is not because I am against paying taxes, but > the government need to be honest and transparent on what they are doing > with tax dollars.) > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
