Ontario is slapping fees on TVs and computers to increase the recycling of electronics in the first phase of a program that will eventually see similar fees apply to nearly all other electronic products.
Today, Environment Minister John Gerretsen is signing a regulation that puts in place a recycling program, including per item fees, for all televisions and computers sold in Ontario. Producers and importers will have to start paying the fees, including $10 for TVs and $2 to $13 for computers, beginning April 1, 2009.
No prob. My computer and TV are less than a year old, so I won’t be replacing them right away. And when I do, I will make sure I do so in Quebec or upstate New York. Probably New york, since their taxes are already considerably lower than what we pay here.
Amazing, the lengths government will go to in order to slow our economy in the name of a socialist ideal.
More bureaucrats telling us what to do, that’s exactly what McGuinty wants. Unionized government workers who will all vote Liberal forever and tell the public that the sky will fall if they don’t vote Liberal. A self fulfilling prophecy of socialist stagnation.
Meh. We have something like that in the People’s Republic of California. These fees are collected to promote recycling. Here’s the kicker – actually try to recycle some of your electronics. Around where I live there’s one company that does it, and I’d have to haul my crap 25 miles to get there. So it goes right into the dumpster, exactly like before.
Another one of McAsswipes, read my lips I won’t raise your taxes, promises down the crapper.