The wonderful Dodd-Frank financial law passed this last July has a very nice provision that the use of any minerals such as tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold that come from Africa, that have been sold or taxed by rebel groups, must be labeled that the product is not free of "conflict minerals".
In the first place, it is very hard to determine if one of these materials is not conflict free, once it gets into the hands of a manufacturer, especially if it is incorporated in some part or device that is bought by the manufacturer for incorporation in his device or final product. An example is a large screen television that may have a thousand or more electronic parts in it. One or more of the materials mentioned above may be incorporated in any part. It is possible that any given part may have been in stock for several years before it is finally used in a product such as the television. Now how in the world is its "conflict minerals" status going to be determined?
The Dodd-Frank bill, supposedly bi-partisan, is another example of over-regulation by the Democratic controlled Congress. The financial provisions in the bill are pretty awful also. This whole Congress has run amok, Democrats, and Republicans, putting our country in a terrible state of government over-reaching, over-taxing, over-spending, over-regulation, and general bloated over-grown inefficiency.
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