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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Connecticut gun law as dumb as bottle deposit bill

Passage of the new non-sense gun control law by our legislators in Hartford, including our governor, should not come as a surprise to anyone. After all, this is the same legislative body which, in 1980, passed one of the strangest nonsense laws in history, requiring a 5-cent deposit on each container of only carbonated beverages. That's right, the container was worth 5 cents only if it contained a carbonated liquid. These same containers, although the same material, size and shape without a carbonated beverage, did not carry the 5 cents deposit, without it. Thirty-three years gone by and these dimwits in Hartford still make fools of themselves with nonsense laws.
Wayne Hugli Sr.
West Haven

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Most bottle bills were passed back when non-carbonated beverages were not popular. Since then, some states have updated them, others have not. In 2009 the CT bottle bill was expanded to also cover water bottles; now would be a good time to add other containers to this successful program. Bottle bills are in place around the world and are the most effective way to increase recycling and reduce litter. In the US, the ten states with bottle bills recycle more containers than the other 40 states combined! More info at bottlebill.org

May 16, 2013 at 3:32 PM 

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