[texas booster]

Tax buyers of any device with a cathode ray tube up to $30 to help the state dispose of them. A new program would educate people about the hazards of disposing the tubes.

That means the death of low end tubes for concumers, and the adoption of flat panel screens. Who wants to pay $30 tax on a product that costs $99?

Also, what is the State's role in disposal? Do they collect money and pass it onto the city landfill? Do they pay to transport the old CRTs to Mexico or China?

If the State's role is "education", then this is little more than than a boondoggle for the media. Remember all of the money the Feds spent during x42's years on "public education" (drugs, pollution, etc)? Nothing but a payoff to the media as they made media buys at full rates, and a payoff to local pols who received some free advertising.

If the State just collects the money, disposal programs will never see meaningful assistance as the money is siphoned off into pet projects.

[snopercod]

Well see all those Cathode Ray Tubes are "filled" with a vacuum, just like the heads of the California legislators.

What's supposed to be the "hazard" in disposing of them, anyway?