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Dallas' Plastic Bag Fee Repealed
NBC5DFW ^ | Jun 3, 2015 | Holley Ford

Posted on 06/03/2015 7:26:53 PM PDT by Spktyr

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Video at link. Worth watching it to see the tolerant liberal at work.

Also, this fee was proposed as a method of cleaning up the city, the guy who proposed the fee and got it pushed through just revealed it was really just revenue generation.

1 posted on 06/03/2015 7:26:53 PM PDT by Spktyr
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Liberalism at it's arrogant worse.

The liberal, university town I live in, in Oregon, banned plastic bags, and charged .05 for a paper bag.

If I didn't have a re-useable bag at the grocery store, the Prius driving, earth-worshipping libs would glare at me in line as I bought 5 paper bags.

I just told them that I used the paper bags so I could use them to burn my trash outside.

The shocked looks were well worth the extra quarter.

2 posted on 06/03/2015 7:37:50 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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Torn feelings here, while I Hate the Walmart plastic bag being ubiquitous and known as the “Texas Flag”
Is placing a fiscal gun to manufacturers heads the answer?

Why not just bust litterers?


3 posted on 06/03/2015 7:38:39 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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Eh, I never really noticed, since I live on the edge of Dallas Co, and do my shopping in Arlington/Ft Worth/&c. as a result. (Saving ¼¢ in taxes also helps)

On the few times that I've ventured out into Dallas (like the recent trip to MicroCenter), the bag fee ALWAYS came as a shock to me....

Glad to know it will be over soon...

4 posted on 06/03/2015 7:39:42 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
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Update: I have since moved to a red county in another blue state where plastic bags are aplenty.


5 posted on 06/03/2015 7:41:52 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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Some ladies at our church knit them into blankets for the homeless. They look pretty awesome and supposedly are great at insulation on cold nights.


6 posted on 06/03/2015 7:44:02 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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The plastic bags???

(Sorry, I just think that sounds a little out of place...)


7 posted on 06/03/2015 7:45:53 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
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Yep. The bags.


8 posted on 06/03/2015 7:54:06 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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The reason being because then there would be a disproportionate number of ‘people of color’ arrested/ticketed/cited.

The part of town worst affected by this is the same part of town that refuses to allow a levee to be constructed to protect them from a flooding Trinity River, claiming that the levee would cut their residents off from ‘opportunities’ - despite there being several bridges in the area for use by pedestrians and motor vehicles. Then, when the Trinity does flood, they complain about how they have no flood protection.


9 posted on 06/03/2015 8:10:10 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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I recycle them properly - I use them for disposing of trash and cat waste/used litter in the dumpster.


10 posted on 06/03/2015 8:12:16 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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The irony, of course, is that it was the same kind of leftist idiot that made us move away from paper bags “to save the trees!” to plastic bags in the first place, decades back. Now we find out the plastic bags are supposedly worse for the environment and the paper bags are far more bio-friendly. Whoops.


11 posted on 06/03/2015 8:13:27 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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Revenueing bastards


12 posted on 06/03/2015 8:14:52 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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bttt


13 posted on 06/03/2015 8:16:35 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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With the leftist idea of making food and other stuff unaffordable, bags won’t be needed anywhere near as much.


14 posted on 06/03/2015 8:19:31 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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We use them to line our waste paper baskets in the house and well as numerous other things.


15 posted on 06/03/2015 8:25:24 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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Well, money was never really the objective — it was implemented for behavior modification.

To wit: “People should always bring their own bags when they go shopping. That was the point of the ordinance in the first place.”


16 posted on 06/03/2015 8:30:57 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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I reuse them nearly all of the time—in fact I save them—they make excellent doggie pick up bags, as someone mentioned. I also use them as litter bags in my car, and to put small stuff in when I’m packing up to go on a trip.


17 posted on 06/03/2015 8:37:21 PM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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I live in Austin. Some time ago the city council banned stores from providing any single use bags, paper or plastic. I bought a gross of plastic bags on Amazon. Very cheap. When I go grocery shopping I just grab a handful from the trunk, where I keep them, and hand them over to the cashier when I check out.


18 posted on 06/03/2015 8:37:50 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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Cutting off access to “opportunities?”

There are no less than FOUR bridges that span the full width of the mighty Trinity—I recommend the Dallas-FtWorth Turnpike.

I hear about this “Horseshoe Project”, now underway, that aims to rebuild that, and the rest of the bridges into Downtown...


19 posted on 06/03/2015 8:38:29 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
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The guy who proposed the ban/fee and got it passed in the first place? Yeah, he just admitted it was for revenue with behavior modification as a a distant second reason.


20 posted on 06/03/2015 9:03:36 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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