Simple: because now you're talking about creating a gigantic government bureaucracy to look at every single product on the market and figure out its disposal co

Simple: because now you're talking about creating a gigantic government bureaucracy to look at every single product on the market and figure out its disposal cost, and then add disposal taxes to every single product. That'll make it pretty hard, for instance, for some small company to come up with a new product and sell it, because they'll have to get Federal regulators to check it out, which will probably cost a fortune. Or what if some little neighborhood deli decides to make a new special sandwich on Saturdays? Nope, can't do that, because we have to spend $10,000 for Federal regulators to come assess its disposal cost. And it has to be Federal because people routinely take things across state lines before disposing of them, so it's a Federal matter. In one word, it's infeasible.