Flatulent orations from well meaning polititcians about adding new taxes or fees puts them in a state of understanding similar to a one celled Amoebea. What self respecting Rhizopoda would allow itself to be compared to these snivelling expectorants?
Our dear Environment Minister still calls his tax on the Eco?, a fee. Because the cheques written for these people are not on government letterhead cheques, he feels they are not government themselves. Let us look at the organizational or should I say dis-organizational chart for this business.
The government sets up an “Orange Program”. Sets fees related to electronics, and waste paint and solvent recycling and recovery.
Then they, by legislation, set up a corporation to operate these programs and to levy the fees. The government sets regulations on what they must achieve, who they can levy, how much they can levy, what and where the programs are to be operated, and legislate fee recovery from industry and individuals.
Here is the definition of a “steward”, “a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.” Hmm sounds a lot like an employee or at minimum someone working at the behest of someone else. Definitely not an independent person or agency.
It’s called Pass the Buck, Shirk your responsibilities, Don't buy the cow if you get the milk for free, Not in My back Yard, It wasn’t me, any number of attempts at making it sound like “them” are not “me”.
When an announcement regarding this “Stewardship” is made, it’s made by the minister from when this organization has sprung. Why? Because it’s supposed to be the person at the top who makes statements to the press in a time of crisis. Who is at the top of this cash cow patronage office? The Minister. Plain and on white bread. This is so cut and sun-dried my head is feeling like a new age pizza with those hard tomato thingies on it.
A tax is a tax by any other name.
Mark Hull Du Calumet, First of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler , Having been again to Australia
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