Posted on 10/12/2016 11:32:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Criminal laws and regulations in the United States have increased to absurd proportions in the past few decades, posing a growing threat to our constitutional liberties.
There are nearly 5,000 criminal laws and an estimated 300,000 or more criminal regulations at the federal level alone. In fact, there are so many possible criminal offenses that Harvey Silverglate, a civil liberties attorney, contends the average American probably commits at least three felonies a day, most without knowing it.
In April, the perils of overcriminalization were on full display when Brian Everidge traveled to Michigan with more than 10,000 bottles and cans, seeking to capitalize on Michigan’s generous 10 cents-per-bottle refund program. He stood to make $1,000.
Everidge was pulled over for speeding and found himself facing a $5,000 fine and up to five years in prison after the state trooper discovered his cargo. As it turned out, transporting more than 10,000 bottles into Michigan with the intent to collect a deposit is a felony. …
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Yup. That’s why they pay you.
I can see a misdemeanor, even for large amounts. “Felony” is absurd.
I can see a misdemeanor, even for large amounts. “Felony” is absurd.
Staying home all day should eliminate two of the three.
Smells like false attribution. And love of statism.
Save on all those new codes and permits by “repairing” half of whatever project this year and half next year.
Look at the penalty for attempting to make $1K against this law: five years in prison and $5K fine.
Yeah, the penalty is too steep.
Not to mention that you can never legally own a gun again.
ENTROPY JUST IS
Recycling is for stupid, illiterate, ignorant people who have poor education in economics and science. For some homeless it makes sense. Demanding children recycle is a form of mild abuse. Conformity to parent’s ignorance.
In other words, the requirement to reverse normal entropy is a very large energy source.
Tell that line to your recycling parents, teacher or state, then tell them to shut up and go get educated. Lol.
And no I will not explain it. Lol.
POTD! :-)
Recycling is not a sham. The bottle law states are a sham.
Fraud from top to bottom. Overcharged consumers are funding this massive scam. I know. Aluminum cans on an industrial scale are bought in tractor trailer amounts in a non bottle law states and shipped to a bottle law state where the scammer gets 5 times the value. They are reimbursed by weight and assumed weight per aluminum can. So any crap within the bales of aluminum cans are paid for as well.
Pure fraud!!!!!!! sort of like taxes!!!!
The only recycling that makes sense to me whatsoever is metal. It’s a finite resource that shouldn’t be wasted. But glass is made of sand. Plastic is easier and cheaper to make new than to recycle. Paper is renewable since trees can be regrown. The less demand for tree farms the more land will be permanently desstroyed for housing develpoments.
The only recycling that makes sense to me whatsoever is metal. It’s a finite resource that shouldn’t be wasted. But glass is made of sand. Plastic is easier and cheaper to make new than to recycle. Paper is renewable since trees can be regrown. The less demand for tree farms the more land will be permanently desstroyed for housing develpoments.
It sounds like you are married to my wife.
I do some token stuff but usually throw stuff in the trash. There is a chance that’s what happens when the truck drops it off later.
That sounds like the appropriate punishment for attempting to make sure you are taking daily medication in the prescribed dosages. How dare them!
“I don’t even bother recycling, though my wife has a fetish about it. It’s a pain in the ass, washing out containers and removing plastic bits and labels.”
Just where do you live? We recycle practically everything now and we don’t have to wash out anything! Our “garbage can” goes out every week practically empty. We put food scraps in with the green waste as well. Here in California there is a lot of pressure not to put everything in a landfill, and it’s one of the few good ideas that comes out of our $hitball government.
Glass is fairly recyclable as well, depending upon your application. Paper and plastics? Not so much, because it takes about as much energy to recycle as it does to make new. You'd save on the raw material if it didn't cost as much as it does to sort, process, and transport recycled plastics. Unfortunately, those extra costs add up to enough, that for most applications it simply doesn't make sense.
In our office there are separate containers for recycling.
One curious person (not me) was staying late one evening and followed the trash out the door to see what happened to the recycle baskets.
It turns out that the cleaning people took all of the recycle baskets and threw them in the regular trash dumpster!
On further research it turned out that the building had no separate place for recycled items.
This has to be happening in millions of locations in the country.
There are so many laws known and unknown that we are all criminals.
We need to recycle most of the government employees into Soylent Green.
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