Letters: What Do You Think?  This week: Bottle Bill--Dollar
Figure Missing; and Inside the Sub-Prime Industry  Thursday,
August 23, 2012  Bottle Bill: Dollar Figure Missing  Here is a
short response to "Bottle Bills and Unicorn Farms" (Letters,
August 16, 2012) and to "Spinning the Bottle" (August 8, 2012)
because one is extremist blather and the other has left out some
important information for solving the puzzle.  First, the
latter. Although the article was informative, with equal time
for both support and non-support of the "new" bill, there needs
to be some meat behind what both sides argue. That missing
entree that goes with both tasty side dishes is this: the money.
In order to understand the success of the bill since the mid-80s
and to further understand the burden the new bill would impose
on business on the back end, I and my good buddy John Q.
Taxpayer need to see some figures.  I would be intrigued and
enlightened as a registered voter in the commonwealth, as a
consumer, again in the commonwealth,