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May 30, 2008
Britain's Wheelie Bin Brownshirts
Posted by Dave Blount at May 30, 2008 7:09 AM
Even just picking up our trash is far too much responsibility to entrust to the government. Give bureaucrats a small task, and they will use it as an excuse to tax you into the ground and worse, to micromanage your life. For example, a British council is now cracking down with a "zero tolerance" policy on garbage collection.
Households must name an individual to be held criminally responsible if wheelie bins are not put out for collection in accordance with exacting regulations. A legal scapegoat is required in case a passerby tosses a nonrecyclable item in the recyclable bin, or vice versa, and escapes before authorities can collect his scalp.
Personal information must also be provided, such as medical conditions, number of babies using disposable diapers, etc. Forms demanding this info are accompanied by letters threatening fines.
Comments Christine Melsom of the tax protest group Is It Fair:
My advice to people who get these letters is to throw them in the bin. Just make sure it's the right bin.
My own advice: Don't let government do anything it doesn't absolutely have to do.
On tips from V the K and Oiao.
