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September 30, 2007
Michigan's Excessive Deposit Law Leads to Fraud
Michigan's exorbitant 10¢ per can deposit mandate has resulted in some enterprising crooks — apparently inspired by a Seinfeld episode — to smuggle in millions of out-of-state cans.
Authorities seized more than $500,000 in cash from the operation. According to Michigan State Police director Colonel Peter Munoz:
Each year, this type of activity defrauds the state [of] approximately $13 million.
As we have seen again and again with welfare and healthcare, wherever government intrudes, there will be large-scale fraud. At least somebody besides bureaucrats, lawyers, and shiftless layabouts benefit from the relentless growth of government: criminals do too. Unfortunately this adds still more to encroaching socialism's already outlandish costs.
On a tip from Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 30, 2007 9:30 AM
Comments
When there was a deposit on BOTTLES, it was the same all over the country. No one cared where the bottles came from and it wasn't profitable to haul hundreds of bottles hundreds of miles to another state.
My city used to give a discount in the trash bill if you had a recycling box, but now, we get charged a "recycling fee" in our trash bill in addition to the recycling fee we pay when we buy plastic bottles! Most people (Including me) have become so disgusted we stopped recycling altogether.
Posted by: KHarn at September 30, 2007 5:23 PM
