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Old 03-18-2007, 09:58 AM   #1 (permalink)
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The 250,000 families with a spy in the bins | the Daily Mail

If we are to be taxed on what we throw away, will the likes of sainsbury,tesco,aldi, etc etc, aslo be taxed on the packaging they sell to use?

Whats good for us is good for them as well!
Is this simply another tax to rake in the money?
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It is a way of trying to make us financial responsible for our waste......do you know a better way ?
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YEAH! tax the stores as well, after all, they seel the packaging to us dony they?
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I would second that bugsy.

Remember the good old days when you could go and buy a quarter of anything in a brown paper bag ?
Broken biscuits, lentils,sugar.....bring it back I say
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