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Hiding costs within prodcuts to hide true costs from users

TAPhilo 16th Jun 2010

This idea, like many other government ideas, is to hide the cost of the maintenance / followup laws and rules that government imposes on people so that the people do not actually see the cost since it is embedded into the product cost at time of purchase. If they put a separate line item onto every product at time of purchase "e-waste future disposal cost" and THEN charged the consumer this so that they know THEY are paying for the future disposal of it, people would complain (unless there was a way to get part of that back when disposed of properly). A business has no vote so the rules can be imposed easily. If every consumer was charged $50 e-waste fee for every $100 in cost for ANYTHING covered by e-waste rules, then could get refunded $35 when properly turned in and disposed of, people could then see the cost and the actual users would bear the cost and not the general public.