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To: STONEWALLS
they figured the city could make millions a year by salvaging metals/plastic/cardboard...the better off neighborhoods complied...the bad neighborhoods were indifferent.

It's not for increasing compliance. It's for increasing NON-compliance.

They just need an excuse to force you to voluntarily pay more fines.

18 posted on 08/20/2010 8:29:16 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine

Where I live, they try to force recycling to cut down on waste going to the new incinerator. Then they realized that the money they hoped to make to pay for the incinerator was based on how much garbage came in.

What a dilemma. When people started recycling more, less went to burn, so revenue went down.

Such dolts. I believe this is a fine example of unintended consequences.

Sort of like raising taxes on tobacco, impugning smokers, then whining when it works and the revenue from tobacco sales fall.


50 posted on 08/20/2010 9:19:56 AM PDT by kevslisababy (It's very hard to earn my trust again)
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