SAN FRANCISCO 17-cent grocery bag surcharge proposal left hanging for a while

SFGate.com ^ | Nov. 24, 2004 | Charlie Goodyear

[lindor]

But then what will the Bag Ladies at Fisherman's Wharf use?

[TheBigB]

Will the last sane person to leave SF please turn out the lights?

[lindor]

There may be no need as one day San Francisco will ban electricity.

[KarlInOhio]

Stupid laws like this make me want to buy a case of plastic bags, go to San Francisco and release them into the wild while playing a recording of "Born Free".

[Phantom Lord]

First the liberal looney envirowackos wanted plastic to reduce the use of tree killing paper bags now they want to tax plastic bags to reduce their use.

How long before a tax on paper bags is instituted as well?

And then after that will they pass a law that people must provide their own bags to transport groceries home?

[microgood]

The fee, ..., is aimed at reducing the number of discarded plastic bags ...

The fee is aimed at extracting money from people.

[eluminate]

proud to be insane is more like it. Whats next charge for air consumption so we would hold our breath longer and waste less oxygen? If this happens I think we might get a revolt that is if any people are left in that place.

which reminds me of St.Louis which shrunk for almost a million people to 330-350k now thats progress *sarcasm*.
Maybe thats what they are aiming for? Less people in general so that they could have all the rat infested and delapidated space they could ever want.

[Yo-Yo]

Will the last sane person to leave SF please turn out the lights?

Too late...

[demlosers]

San Fran can tax themselves into oblivion.

[Oldexpat]

Why only 17 cents? Why not a dollar?

[Oldexpat]

Why only 17 cents? Why not a dollar?

[Paleo Conservative]

The real purpose of this tax is to run low income people out of the city.

[demlosers]

Psssssst San Francisco, tax the plastic bottles like Germany does. You guys want to be able to keep up with your bro socialists.

[eluminate]

maybe put tolls on sidewalks so that when people want to enter a neighborhood they could pay taxes as they walk into one from another.

[Florida native]

Ah, San Francisco - Land of Fruits, Nuts, and Flakes.

They think up a new way to tax, and we must do our part to confound them!

BYOB = Bring Your Own Bag!

[eluminate]

maybe they should put tolls on sidewalks and charge people for entering and leaving neighborhoods?

[codercpc]

We have a local grocery store that employs quiet a few "slow" people to be baggers. One of them, Michael, always asks "paper, or plastic", but he does it in a way that sounds exactly like the Rainman character played by Dustin Hoffman. You can literally hear him all over the store....Paper or Plastic??

They have another employee, Tiffany, that bags our groceries, but only puts one or two items in a bag. My mom works at this store (no she isn't one of the "slow" people), and whenever I get Tiffany, I look at Mom, and she says, "Now, Tiffany, you know you can get a few more items in that bag". I can just imagine what Tiffany would do to my budget if we lived in San Fransisco and this passed.

[skip_intro]

They think up a new way to tax, and we must do our part to confound them!

BYOB = Bring Your Own Bag!

Won't work. Restaurants have a "corkage" charge, grocery stores will have a "baggage" charge.

You can't deny the rulers of the Cesspool by the Bay their tribute.

[Florida native]

You can't deny the rulers of the Cesspool by the Bay their tribute.

Yes I can. I can choose to live anywhere but there. ;-)