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Bad
News for Hobos
A
bill in the state legislature seeking to expand the state’s
bottle deposit law to include all those wacky new beverages
and water bottles is being met with opposition by Cheektowaga’s
Paul Tokasz, the Assembly’s Majority leader. In fact,
Tokasz and his friends in the bottling industry are sponsoring
a bill which would repeal the deposit law entirely. Enacted
in 1982, the deposit law has kept mountains of garbage out
of landfills and turned bums into efficient street cleaners.
Tokasz thinks it’s a good idea to end the law because
New Yorkers ignore it and it would allow him and his buddies
to tax the shit out of consumers. He is woefully misguided,
but perhaps the good assemblyman has never seen the hordes
of can and bottle collectors out every garbage night pushing
shopping carts filled to overflowing in search of bottle booty.
Before 1982, New York was a wasteland of broken beer bottles
and crushed cans (remember those sharp-ass pull tabs?), and
Tokasz wants to return to those sorry days. What an asshole.
These are the types of games our elected representatives are
engaged in down in Albany, fronting one bad idea after another
from whatever PAC signs the checks.
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