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Pollution Control:
"When any one of our various competitively producing industrial companies are told that they must stop polluting the atmosphere or waters, they say that the added cost would prevent them from competing in their respective industries; ergo pollution abatement would mean bankruptcy for them; ergo no compliances. The atmospheric airs drift and the waters flow interconnectedly around our planet. They and all resources are essential to all humanity and the Universe of which humans are just such a function.
“Clearly the problem won’t be solved until central governments make complete precipitation mandatory and rebate the costs thereof from the annual taxes of the industries while forcing the utilities to turn over to the central government all the valuable chemical elements recovered. The governments would find their stockpiles worth many times what they seemingly were losing in tax rebates. The saving to governments in medicare and general pollution-caused deteriorations would be profound. The computers would soon inform the government that they were saving so much money that they could almost completely eliminate taxes. They would be converting commonwealth to sorted-out metals that would continually recirculate and with each 22-year”
