Comments on: Swiss town reinvents newspaper tax

By: me myself & I

me myself & I — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:29:30 +0000

I’m from Switzerland. We now have five freepapers and there is a problem with waste. One man is wise, but people are dumb…

It seems very funny to just throw them on the soil. why? I can’t say…
If they pay 300 bucks to the community for cleaning it up. I think that’s all right and fair.

By the way Freepapers have probably the deepest rate of “getting into recovered papers”.
I anyway like reading electronically. I do hate Paper… you know

By: admin

admin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:55:56 +0000

If the mayor wants to cut down waste, measures should be taken to solve that. Pollution surely is a problem linked to massive distribution of free newspapers. But just taxing them to avoid them from being published does not seem the right move to me.

By: nico.

nico. — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:45:57 +0000

You fail to mention the line in Persoenlich where the mayor argues the new tax is created to pay for negative externalities (ie waste) created by free sheets.

It’s only a response to a pollution problem. The abundance of knowledge today relative to the 19th century makes the comparison at the end a bit sickening, thinking of countries where laws *really* hamper the spread of content.