“A code inspector told store officials that their bags had to display the bag thickness.”
Everything wrong with this country right now!
Paper(s) Please!
The Bag NAZIs
Once politicians become aware of this new cash cow, the price will go up--and up, and up, and up--just like a toll on a bridge.
Nannies are ninnies
Too bad Dallas isn’t part of the real Texas any more
Mark my word this type of law go to effect in July here in State of CALI
I would refuse bags, leave my items gathered at the bottom of the checkout register chute (assuming multiple items), carrying several items out to the car at a time, returning to reload numerous. If any items disappeared while I loaded my car, I’d call the cops and file a report for theft against the store.
This is how Texas turns blue. Through piecemeal, local actions by the left.
They need to come and see how the Enviro-Nazis in Austin do it. They are the Gaia Gestapo, working to save the planet from plastic bags.
I thought a bag law pertained to ugly wimmen in bars
I wish someone would take the time to examine the cost of ridiculous laws like this. Not just the economic cost, but the insane cost in lost time for people who have to spend time dealing with this.
Another example: How many hours of time does the average American have to spend on dealing with recyclable materials - rinsing out containers, flattening boxes, separating items by type, examining plastics to see if they are acceptable, ....
Another needed study is the one that examines whether the average citizen is helped or protected by any given law or whether it was only passed to improve the finances of the government, some group, or some individual. These studies need to be done by objective researches, not liberal shills.
Why not Arabic, or Swahili?
The totalitarians haven't a clue of the power of citizen nullification.
The law can't possibly enforce the customers' decision to buy and use plastic bags.
As usual, the current socialist mindset is incapable of accepting the limitations of the Constitution, and the fundamental assumptions accepted as the foundation of human rights and the inviolability of those "self-evident truths."
I strongly recommend Judge Napolitano's Book, Suicide Pact for an extensive, but ,alas, incomplete analysis of the Executive branch Constitutional and extra-Constitutional powers.
Although this plastic bags business is trivial in the big picture, it is the incremental abuse that eventually finds the country in unexpected financial and social straightjackets and effective despotism.
Bottom line, all citizens are minutely controlled as the result of the abuse and cluelessness of the few. The Bureaucratic mind is never known for perspicacity and restraint.
The sad average and falling IQ of federal elected leadership and the hundreds of thousands of laws old and new continues to grow, and the electorate (citizens) are similarly pretty much clueless.
Look out, Oklahoma! In a decade or so you will be inundated with former Texans.
Damn Walmart, how unfeeling can a company get?
As always, Walmart finds a new low.
I’m sure that behind all this love of momma earth, we’ll find the crony corporations looking for a way to get more to share between them and the taxman. What a ploy! Charge for a bag...and make it required! And give the taxman a cut!
If they could only find a way to make you buy your own shelf stocker.
Next will be a fee for using a shopping cart.
Why stop at Spanish? Why not every single dialect on the planet. Make them add Klingon and Elfish. Add raised dots for Braille. Heck, throw in sign language and don't stop at American sign language. Nope, can't shrink the fonts for all those languages to appear because then they'd discriminate against those who have sight problems. Wait, gotta place a sound chip in their bags so the hearing impaired and those who can't read won't be discriminated against. And rainbow colors because just a white bag is racist.
Of that fee, 4.5 cents goes to the city
IOW, it's all a scam for the city to make money.
Here's an idea. Decline the extra expense of a bag and make the store carry out your purchases to the car for you. Sure, that only aggravates the employees but it's taking a stand. Of course, the blame lays at the feet of the idiots who screamed paper bags were evil.
The city council of my California town voted to enact a plastic bag ban, and a bag store provided fee.
When up for reelection, two of them were voted out. Our town has decided we don’t trust city council to decide on our behalf.
Will never shop in Dallas because of this. Businesses should just leave the fascist ghettos. I reuse the plastic bags for trash. They are essential.
People from Texas are always crowing about how conservative their state is but recent articles about their rapidly growing nanny state seem to indicate that they are rapidly becoming more like San Francisco and Boston.