The Instigator
Jacket123
Pro (for)
Jacket123
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1dustpelt
Con (against)
1dustpelt
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Trash Costs

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Started: 4/26/2012 Category: Society
Updated: 1 year ago Status: Post Voting Period
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Jacket123

Pro

I saw in other places/countries where trash cost money. People had to pay for throwing away trash. I support this because:

1. Trash takes up land and should be removed.

2. By making people pay for trash, they would be discouraged to create it.
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1dustpelt

Con

I accept. Pro has the BOP.

Rebuttals

1. And will making people pay for throwing away trash solve the problem? People do not choose how much trash they make. People do not choose that they have a leftover box that needs to be thrown away.

2. Again, they do not choose to create trash. That will have no effect because the same amount of trash will be produced anyways because trash is unpreventable. After you eat chicken, there will be bones left. Trash will be created with or without people paying.

Contentions

1. Taxing(Basicaly) trash will make people dispose of it illegally. Because they do not want to pay, they can just dump it into a river or something.

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Posted by seraine 1 year ago
seraine
Pro could have possibly argued that the financial incentive would lead to more recycling.
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Vote Placed by Ixaax 1 year ago
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Reasons for voting decision: People can easily limit how much food they waste and how much extra stuff they buy, so I agree with pro, but pro had no justification behind this so the debate easily goes to Con.
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Reasons for voting decision: Because you can't change how much trash you produce, it would just make people use money unnecessarily.
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Reasons for voting decision: CON substantiates his claims