Friday, February 26, 2010
How we pay for Superfund cleanups
For my final paper, I am researching legislation in Congress called the "polluter pays" bill, which would help fund the Superfund program, which was started under Carter and revised in 1986. The 1986 legislation provided for a "polluter pays" pool, but the law expired after 10 years and has not been reauthorized. An article from last April, Without Superfund Tax, Stimulus Aids Cleanup, shows one of the ways taxpayers are now footing the cost of the cleanup.
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I think that it would be interesting to find out why the law was allowed to expire. It seems to me that the voters would never want to foot the bill themselves and anyone would agree that the ones who pollute should be the ones who pay for the cleanup. Are the lobbyists for industry provided too much access to politicians in Washington thereby allowing legislation to favor the forward march of the economy at the expense of our tax dollars?
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