[GreenKeys] Why destruction?

[Don Robert House]

At 10:33 AM -0400 4/14/02, Charles Ring wrote:
>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

We had a saying at Ameritech... "Never trust a person that wears a 
suit more than four days a week"

Don
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