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    Raise the curtain.

    Right Thing To Do: Repeal MBCA of 1976


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2012 at 05:58:34 AM EST
    Tags: Item Pricing was a drag on business?, a Piker By Comparison, Michigan Beverage Container Act 1976, 445.571 - 445.576, Fraud Issues, Act 388 of 2008, Interstate Commerce Issues, Lawyer payday, Taxpayers screwed again, Business too, Recycling Bins - USE THEM, Repeal MBCA, AG Schuette don't appeal this loser (all tags)

    If anyone thought that Item Pricing was an outmoded monstrosity, get a load of this.  
    via The Detroit News

    A federal appeals court struck down a Michigan law that forces beverage companies to put a special identifying mark on returnable cans and bottles sold in the state.

    The court ruled Thursday that Michigan is illegally affecting interstate commerce by dictating where cans and bottles can be distributed.

    That's because the law says containers with a special Michigan mark can be sold only in Michigan and states that also require deposits. Failure to comply is a crime.

    Rest

    Yeaaah!  Michigan, being only 1 of 10 Liberal states to have bottle deposits that's plagued with fraud, and stifling business, is now a deemed illegal, ripe for the pickings, lawyer fee boondoggle too.  But Scales, we need the bottle deposits tax to keep the Great Lakes clean.  Ya, right.  Go tell that EcoTerrorist crap to Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, who don't have bottle deposits.  It's ridiculous to keep revisiting this container deposit Law (beer, soft drinks, wine coolers) when juice pouches have exemptions, and everyone with their bazillions of 20 oz. water bottles never ever were included in the 10¢ shakedown.  Get with the times, Lansing.  The human chattel have been conditioned into recycling at their dwellings.  They pay for recycling bins with their rubbish pickup in their property taxes.  Repeal this outdated law, throw the damn beverage containers in recycling bins, and get the Hell out of businesses way.

    OR, I'm calling Newman.

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    I don't have a problem (none / 0) (#1)
    by JGillman on Fri Nov 30, 2012 at 06:57:35 AM EST
    with the law personally.

    But there are consequences like food stamp fraud, and the costs associated as you point out, etc.

    I remember bottles and cans on the side of the road however.  

    • Hmmm .. Then... by Corinthian Scales, 11/30/2012 07:18:28 AM EST (none / 0)
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