QUESTION 2: Law Proposed by Initiative Petition
Expanding the Beverage Container Deposit Law
Do you approve of a law summarized below, on which no vote was taken by the Senate or the House of Representatives on or before May 6, 2014?A YES VOTE would expand the state’s beverage container deposit law to require deposits on containers for all non-alcoholic, non-carbonated drinks with certain exceptions, increase the associated handling fees, and make other changes to the law.
A NO VOTE would make no change in the laws regarding beverage container deposits.
This attempt at expanded 'recycling' is nothing more than a blatant cash grab by the MA legislature. The man (It's always a man) who most recently proposed this idea had to forcibly restrain himself from laughing when he admitted that he expected the state to see a boon from the unreturned bottles to the tune of millions of dollars. Again, if you want to give a politician extra money for nothing, and expect any good to come out of it, you're only one of two kind of people.
The down side of this question is that it gets mixed up with people who genuinely see it as a way to help build up our recycling programs (which are mandatory in many cities and towns across the Commonwealth) and to help preserve the environment. It's about neither, it's only about the money. It's almost always about the money.
A NO vote shows good common sense, and forces the legislature to create a new revenue stream to rob its citizens. A yes vote shows that your are stuck on ideology, or that you're a government worker. There is, unfortunately, no in between on this issue.
