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		pmiller2 on Oct 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fe... Then why do they need this VAT?

itcrowd on Oct 5, 2019 [–]

Some costs (e.g. waste management) increase with each sold item.

pmiller2 on Oct 5, 2019 | [–]

Then charge for waste management as a separate item. Call it a tax or a service charge, or whatever.

mikepurvis on Oct 7, 2019 | | [–]

Charging people to pick up their trash generally ends in trash getting dumped or disposed of improperly (eg, contamination of the recycling bin).

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