Posted on 02/11/2011 6:53:03 AM PST by tje
Oh, okay...I get it now.
I have a hard time understanding this being a crime? Personally, I have returned cans from other states and the bar codes are accepted in the automatic machines. I figure if the cans are accepted by the bar code, then the mfg of the beverage has chosen to make them returnable in my state.
If this is a crime, then the overall business case is not supported for the returns. If it is a crime, then it must mean that the government is not at all interested in actually keeping the aluminimum out of land fills (or the side of the roads.)
“A felony. Really.
Our legal system has started to prey on the good guys.”
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“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers.”
Quote by: Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3
As long as it is just YOU wanting to rob that bank you are OK. If you talk to someone about it and make a plan to do it, that is conspiracy to commit a felony - which is a felony.
“All the cans are collected and we bring them back home. Whether we bought them in MI or bought them on Ohio, we get the same 10 cents.”
That’s the crime. My issue is that I generally just rely on the bar code readers in the can smasher machines to sort them out. Why can’t the bar codes contain the distribution information?
“But the cans from OH look like the cans from MI.”
Now that I think about it, if a can states a refundable amount for MI (or any state) then should it not be eligible for that refund? I don’t understand how a can or bottle can contain the refundable amount, but not be legally eligible for that refund. It might very well be an interstate commerce issue afterall.....
One state gets the tax revenue, and the other state gets the road wear and tear.
-PJ
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