The state of California is swirling around in the toilet bowl and the lawmakers are concerned with grocery bags.
Priorities.
Watch for a huge increase in stolen shopping carts.
Its now Kalifornia.....comrades......
The Soviet Socialist Republik of Kalifornia is keeping its citizens in line.
We went this route in South Africa about 5 years ago. At first people acquired re-usable bags (on sale at our supermarkets - at no profit we were told), but many people gradually slipped into their old habits and just got used to paying for the plastic bags. I have to admit, though, that you see a lot less of them lying around - they used to be known as our national flower!
How do so many fruitcakes get in office?
These commy greenies and their global warmist friends will destroy our country.
No government has any right to tell sellers what the price is for an item. That’s communism. Once this is happens, there will be one more board in the plank of communism in the once-great state of California.
The Aldi Mart grocery store model!
"The Earth has been around for over 4 billion years. And we think a couple PLASTIC BAGS are gonna destroy the Earth?! Let me tell you something. The Earth ain't going anywhere...WE ARE!"
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_2751-2800/ab_2769_bill_20080822_amended_sen_v96.html This bill would, on and after January 1, 2010, prohibit a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer unless the store charges a fee of not less than $0.25 per bag at the point of purchase. The bill would exempt certain customers from paying the fee. The bill would establish the Bag Pollution Fund in the State Treasury and would require a store to remit the single-use carryout bag fees, less a specified amount, to the State Board of Equalization for deposit in that fund. The bill would require the Resources Agency and the Department of Conservation to administer and enforce the single-use carryout bag provisions and would require the State Board of Equalization to administer the collection of the fees imposed on those bags. The moneys in the fund would be required to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in a specified order of priority, by the State Board of Equalization to reimburse its costs associated with collecting the fees, by the Resources Agency and Department of Conservation for purposes of providing financial assistance for projects and activities related to mitigating the effects of single-use carryout bags, and by the California Integrated Waste Management Board for grants to cities and counties for programs that encourage and support recycling of single-use carryout bags and single-use carryout bag pollution prevention and outreach programs.