[GreenKeys] Why destruction?

[Charles Ring]

Don Robert House wrote:

> It has to do with accounting and taxes.  In the last 36 years I have
> seen this happen several times.  The equipment is fully depreciated
> and all of its original value has been written off.  IF the equipment
> is sold or donated it gains value.  Value that would cancel the
> depreciation and cause the tax accountants all kinds of problems.
>
> If people really wanted to donate the equipment to a worthy cause
> they could do it but it would take weeks of paper work.  I once asked
> my boss at Illinois Bell for an old Apple Computer, a IIe with all
> the bells and whistles on it for my wifes classroom.  It took two
> unhappy staff members over a week to get all of the forms through the
> accounting maze.  I finally got the unit and gave it to her school.
> The kids wrote the boss and staff a thank you but the men asked me to
> please not ask again.

As the corporations and the lawyers get more and more power, their arrogance and
yes, sadism grows with no limits. I am about at the point of assuming that anyone
in a suit and tie is evil incarnate.

73 de W3NU