A TAX on NEWSPRINT!
Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers and
Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and
Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and
Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines Therefore:
Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
What do you think?
The SF Chronicle is inserted in double plastic bags before it's tossed on subscriber's lawns. That plastic ends up in landfills! My neighbor has me picking up his Chron while he's out of town this week. I would never subscribe. The Chron is looking mighty thin this month, and the front page looks like amateurs put it together. It needs to die!