Okay, I don’t want to belabor the discussion, rather, focus on Clinton and Trump, killing Islam, etc. But if my state decided that reducing litter and increasing recycle was worthwhile endeavor—and I lived in many states with bottle deposits (growing up in Idaho, my brother and I collected many for candy money), then why should my state suffer someone corrupting our effort by importing their recycling from another state? These are not money making efforts. The state collects fee for bottles sold in the state, the refund fee for bottles returned, they pay taxes to support the effort. The result is less litter and more recycling. Now, you bring in bottles by the truck load, claiming refunds. Well you never paid deposits, you never paid into this system. Why should you take money from that pool of funds, maybe even from the state taxpayers. Whether you agree with bottle deposits or not, doing so is fraud and theft. It is simply not right.
Thanks for the story.
Imagine my surprise as I’m reading the headlines on FR, click on your link and discover the article is about a coworker I worked with 20 years ago. He unionized that shop for the UAW, that was when I left... He left as soon as the NLRB made the final ruling in favor of UAW on a contested 1 vote margin. Destroyed a fine company that would springboard good talent into FoMoCo prototype and engineering positions. For all our differing worldview he seems to be a pretty good guy anymore.
Imagine that he has moved from a Bill Clinton supporter to a Trumper but that is just a guess.
I did not say that refunds from out of state was the right thing to do. I was highlighting the hypocracy of the legislators airtime to in passing the bill.