More Taxes/Fees and Charges.

http://www.encorp.ca/cfm/index.cfm?It=925&Id=48

Yep, they've done it again people, the good folks in charge of solving our problems seem to only have one solution to anything. that is, slap a tax on it, then set up some monopolistic company to profit from and get rich on a poorly organized govt initiative, on the backs of BC's consumers. This time its electronics. The BC government have just established a new tax or fee on electronic goods like computers and tvs. The charge is $15 for a CPU and $5 for a laptop.

If you are like me, you dont buy anything here anyway, (i buy almost all my electronics in the US) i recently even purchased a 50" plasma down there and brought it back in myself, saving tax, saving hundreds of dollars, and now saving myself some communisitic recycling fee...

I am all for recycling and giving the environment a break, but this doesn't solve problems, all this will do is drive consumers costs up, and ensure that some politicians brother, (who runs the program) will profit and get to drive around in a car that their own education level could never afford.

make the business of recycling attractive, by giving tax breaks to companies who offer it, setup some compeitition, encourage industry and commerce to meet the challenges...nope all of that too hard, the easy answer, slap a tax on it, this year it's $15, in 5 years it will $100....when the lame asshole running the recycling plant can't do it on budget...