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To: Lane3 who wrote (82830)	9/7/2008 6:08:36 PM
From: Stan J. Czernel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541648

You're kidding, right? And I thought it was a hassle to separate my trash into paper, plastic, and glass. And imagine the gas costs returning milk cartons to the farm and hair dryers to China No. Reread the post. I spoke of Capital goods (I suppose I said durable good). But this isn't going to be a mindless application of the law - it should apply where it makes sense to apply it: washers, dryers, refrigerators and automobiles, matresses, computers, etc.. A heavy tax on landfill, however, should be across the board. I believe that one of the most effective ways to get Corporations to change their behavior is to make an activity in which they indulge very expensive. It is amazing how wasteful many industries are. If you make generating waste expensive, Corporations (kicking and screaming every step of the way) will learn how to drive waste from their processes. This is one of the great secrets of Japanese productivity - eliminating waste at every opportunity. Who knows? maybe you implement cap and trade for waste disposal?: a company that is especially successful at reducing waste can sell its credits to one that still needs them. Before the barrage of criticism begins: I believe that many new taxes should - if possible - be revenue neutral. If it threatens to burden a group excessively then it should be offset by a tax reduction in another area.