Posted on 07/24/2008 10:25:11 PM PDT by BJungNan
By Wiley Smith; July 24, 2008
Just saw that Los Angeles banned plastic bags and will charge 25 cents for each paper bag the store supplies to customers.
Three percent of the bag fee will be returned to the retailer (0.045 cents), 3 percent (0.045 cents) will go to the state, and the rest (0.16 cents) will go back to the city to fund an education campaign.
Of course, some enterprising individuals likely will be selling the bags for less, buying them at a landed cost of 0.05 cents and doubling their money for a sell price of 0.10 cents a bag - and they will still be under the store mandated sell price of 0.25 cents per bag.
Get your bags here and save! Bags! Bags! Get your bags here!
That is if the vendor wants to sell only paper bags. If that same vendor also sells plastic bags, then he can really make out good. In usual form, government is about to create a cottage industry, and underground market in bags – except it will be above ground because the ordinance does not make it illegal to sell bags.
Except
http://www.desertvalleystar.com/desert_hot_springs_plastic_bags_07-24-08.html
Here in Virginia, the Food Lion stores have a plastic bag recycling bin in front of the stores where you can dispose of your used plastic shopping bags.
Now if I could just remember to take the darn things with me when I go shopping.
You're right. Of course, what happens when I find a huge sale on my favorite foods and can't buy as much as I want because I didn't bring enough bags? Or get to the store and find I forgot to bring my bag(s)? Liberals are so much smarter than the rest of us, both the shoppers and the grocers.
I remember. We were not supposed to use paper because we would kill a tree. This is just another manufactured crisis, the government can’t help you if there isn’t something wrong, so there must always be something to scream about. We need to get rid of the frickin’ left and the sooner the better.
The problem, and the part that should bother you is not the fact they(the left)are against plastic bags, The problem is that they(the left)were the ones who forced plastic on us in the first place. For quite some time, in CA at least, you couldn’t even get a paper bag, you had to take plastic. Now, they have reversed themselves and act as if somehow the VRWC are the ones who mandated plastic bags when in reality it was the same a**hats who now say we must use paper. Personally I prefer paper, but I remember and despise the frickin’ left and their half a**ed ideas.
I remember the slogan...Kill a tree ... or choke a fish. Paper or plastic. Ye Gods!
Here in Texas, the HEB stores also have a bin out front to recycle the plastic bags.
I have 2 reusable bags..they stay in my car, and go in the store with me every time, because I also sometimes end up buying more than I intend.
I also make a point to get a couple of plastic bags every week....handy for cleaning up the cat’s litter box.
Environmental arguments aside, it is a relief to me not to have that pile of paper OR plastic bags cluttering up the house anymore.
Don’t blame the grocery stores for this...their interest is making the customer happy, not saving the world. I can see this lovely law resulting in a lot of customers screaming at an $8-an-hour cashier who had nothing to do with the new policy.
Is it all about you then ?
Because it seems to me that, no matter what my, or your, personal perferences on the matter are, that this is a gross taking of personal liberty by the LA City Council, who has no constitutional, or other, right to dictate to private businesses
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manufactured crises are helpful not only to increase the acceptability of more fascism,
but also to make the individual narcissistic liberal feel good about himself.
Who cares if they get recycled or put back into a landfill and don’t break down for 1000 years.
Nobody is going to be digging up landfills to see anyway so they just stay underground.
So there is this big push for using cloth bags. People need to be aware when buying meat products, I mean having juices leak from packaged meats. Frequent washing is advised. I have a master plan to corner the market........cloth bag plastic liners!
The problem there isn’t the bag, it’s people who didn’t properly dispose of them. Liter is liter, paper or plastic it’s still the result of lazy people.
I like plastic bags, because of their flexibility I can carry 6 or 7 bags of stuff in one hand, kind of tough on the fingers but it gets me inside quick. Really we should leave it up to the market. And don’t tell LA about boxes, they’ll start making stores charge for those too.
And when this legislation starts to put plastic bag manufacturers out of business and thousands of people out of work it will be Bush’s fault for the upswing in unemployment rates!
The article said when that happens you just go out to a vendor on the street that will sell you more bags at a lower price than the price the store is mandated to sell them at.
That is it exactly.
Sounds good to me. I really hate those bags.
BWA-HA-HA-HAHAHAHA!
I don’t like paper because cockroaches like to hide in the creases, and I don’t like plastic because it’s too flimsy.
I buy the fabric bags, but not because I’m going “green;” it’s a softer, quieter way to bring in the groceries. Besides: When not occupied with groceries, those fabric bags are handy for LOTS of things!!!
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