Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/09/26/sweden-proposes-tax-breaks-for.html
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It’s a worthy goal to incentivize product design that promotes repair, but I’m leery of this approach because it seems likely to be a regressive tax. (“Resources that go into goods” is broad enough to cover just about anything anyone buys; and proportionally, poorer people spend more of their income than richer people.)
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∗Cough∗
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Recycling will also gain tax breaks.
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The ad for the fleecing of America is rather misleading.
Interesting idea. Hopefully it works.
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Planned obsolescence is a scheme fit only for the lives of it’s progenitors.
But I suppose this response is more civilized.
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Fuck yeah. Go Sweden.
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