Posted on 12/17/2022 5:19:51 AM PST by real saxophonist
Just another Tax Grab
Someone is making a fortune cause people are always forgetting their bags and having to buy more. The local supermarket has a sign almost as big as their stores name with, DONT FORGET YOUR BAGS.
My point, exactly! We bought Coke in returnable bottles, we hanned veggies and even meat in Mason jars, (I’m still using some that my grandmother bought in the fifties). I’m totally praying for the day when disposable diapers will have a 10c/each tax to pay for the government taking care of your brat’s shitty behind.
Well, then, I hope there’s a 10c/bag tax added to the price of those bags you’re ordering. The tax is not for the price of the bag, but the disposal of the bag. Why should the government be picking up the tab for someone who insists on creating garbage?
“Here in Colorado, we have a big plastic pollution problem,”...so instead of switching to paper or biodegradable bags, we’ll do the dumb thing and tax you to give the appearance that we’re doing something. It’s all about getting more money from you anyway.
Yep.
In Carbondale they charged $1/bag. With the whole state going to $.10 they'll probably raise it to $10.
Probably following the successes of Seattle . . .
The powers that be originally promoted plastic bags to “save a tree”. In this “law” they seem to forget about all of the packaging in which many products are contained. Do those plastics not contaminate the environment in the same way as plastic bags?
What is the choice now, kill a tree or choke a fish?
Right. This is the typical commie trash lie ....... about most anything that spews out of their mouths.
Anyone who doesn’t re-use such bags is an idiot — which marks them out as commie trash, ironically.
They are waterproof, which is way better than a paper bag. They last quite a while. But, everyone I’ve touched in recent years are biodegradable. They kind of crumble after a few moths — which makes them a bit risky for poo collecting if you employ LIFO approach to storage.
CaCaLand politicos went with this years ago, also tied to the lie about plastic bags all over the place. They got grocery stores to go along with regs that enforced the 10C price. Which is corrupt as ‘Ell since I now buy the bags on line for <3C. Nice profit markup if you can get it on anything.
The continuing liberal “creating awareness” B.S. that accomplishes nothing except inconveniencing and torturing everyone.
Correct.
I am all for this. A few roads I travel are full of plastic bags laying on the side of the road. Americans are pigs with litter. I would bring back 5 cent plastic bottle return also.
IF there’s a way to steal a dollar, rest assured, a lib politician will find it.
Yes, in some areas or when there is an over abundance but most paper and plastic is recycled.
Make it a dollar a bag, then no one will use them. At a dime, it’s just a way for the state to make money.
(We already use our own bags, they don’t split!)
Same here. Our legislators here in Colorado look at California and drool.
“Generations ago, we burned all of our garbage and trash of which there was very little, since there was almost no packaging.”
I used to love throwing Mom’s used hairspray cans in the burn barrel. :)
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