Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am 13.06.2014 08:28, schrieb Per Jessen:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-06-12 20:00 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed:
In Europe we pay a recycling tax on every electronic gadget we buy.
s/tax/fee/
IMO, everything a gummint collects that isn't a user fee, like a road toll or park admission, it's a tax, something it collects because it can, not necessarily should, particularly something collected on account of making a purchase of a chattel or service.
You're assuming this fee is collected by the government. It isn't in Switzerland.
Ha, Switzerland is perfect!
Also perfect in privatizing profits and socializing losses. So many obligatory payments and enterprises getting paid by government just for sending out bills and collecting money, no risk, great earnings.
I would rather have private enterprise doing it than government - state-operated machinery always end up bloated beyond belief, imho.
I'm not against corruption (how else could I live in Spain ;-) ), I'm just disappointed that there's no law that obligates everyone to buy one of my images every year, and if not buying it, then at least paying it. Somehow I missed to make the right friends...
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