Posted on 01/12/2019 6:40:04 AM PST by reaganaut1
First they came for the plastic bags, then plastic straws. Now California progressives want to ban paper receipts. Like so many other liberal crusades, the fight against paper receipts is cronyism masquerading as green virtue.
California’s good liberals see a green villain behind every corner. If something doesn’t kill sea turtles then it will likely give you cancer. The state banned single-use plastic bags in 2016, which was followed last year by a prohibition on plastic straws in restaurants. Warnings are required on products that regulators deem even remotely carcinogenic, from potato chips to aspirin.
The latest scourge is paper receipts. According to state Assemblyman Phil Ting of San Francisco, receipts generate 686 million pounds of waste and 12 billion pounds of carbon dioxide each year, the equivalent of one million cars on the road. They may also contain the chemical BPA, which could cause birth defects if ingested in high doses. Is eating receipts a new diet fad in California?
Mr. Ting this week proposed legislation requiring businesses to offer e-receipts as the default option or pay a fine of $25 per day. Many merchants are upgrading to mobile payment processing and checkout systems because millennials spurn cash and all things paper. But his bill would mandate that all businesses adopt such new hardware and software systems.
As it happens, the biggest beneficiary would likely be Square Inc., whose headquarters is in San Francisco and is run by CEO Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Catalogues-——dozens of catalogues arrive in my mail weekly and I haven’t catalogue shopped in at least 10 years.
I have ordered something on-line and the same company will start sending me annoying catalogues.
.
... and those catalogs are printed on glossy stock. Many recyclers discourage glossy stock.
Do you then print them out for your records - for security, should you need them to make a return?
I'd ask if you are self-employed, but that looks obvious as you seem not to worry about having to have MACHINE receipts for tax purposes, and lastly... if you print them out - e-receipts are petty useless as they'd be long lost should you need them weeks/months down the road - if you print them out - is not the paper sheet larger than a machine receipt? and you are still using ink...
Just curious...
Nope. I rarely return items. The last item I returned was a computer I bought from Best Buy. No receipt was needed. They had my purchase history in their computers.
I don't like clutter.
Absolutely...and that is why this concept is dangerous to those who value their privacy. I mean seriously... They are already tracking everything we do as is without our knowledge. There has to be a line in the sand at some point. Being forced to use third party services by the government is the last straw.
Example... I still hold a resale and wholesale license in Ca. They have now made it so that you can ONLY file your quarterly returns using the internet web portal period. They say you can request paper forms only if you have no other way to do it. But just TRY and actually get these. They will not send them and call a couple times a week trying to force you to use the internet.
The internet should NEVER be a prerequisite to conducting business ANYWHERE. Az is now doing the same and I am on that one in the legislature here. Thing is what if it is an old timer who is not internet or computer savy but has been doing their own books for 60 years? What if someone just doesn’t want to pay for internet? Are they now too old and ignorant to be in business and they don’t need the revenue these folks might bring in because it is “inconvenient” for them to process paper to collect these taxes?
So what are the options for the old timer at this point? Hire someone to do his returns online? One problem... Everyone in this type of business is not going to do “just that” for you. They are going to force you to purchase “the whole package” or nothing at $300 a month or more. This has now become an extreme hardship and financial burden that might just shut the old timer down because it isn’t worth it.
They are stepping on their own toes with this stuff. “But it saves the taxpayers money because we don’t need as many people staffed to process the returns”. Really? Did you fire or lay anyone off? Have you STOPPED hiring new employees? No? then it saves nothing and is costing you REVENUE. lol
Idiots... All around the third party dependency road is a bad road to support and travel.
Thing is... It’s not him. He is just a pawn for the Bankters who want to own us all.
I haven’t taken paper receipts in years. Credit cards leave an “etrail”. God doesn’t object.
Ha. So true.
“The email doesn’t disappear, it quickly gets onto the next page and is outa sight outa mind”
Sort of like the paper receipts tossed in a box!
I am at a Redbox. How do you get a paper receipt?
We check them against the credit card bill then into a file cabinet.
Try again
“We check them against the credit card bill then into a file cabinet.”
Quicker and neater with online receipts!
Your life, your choice
My life, my choice.
OMG!
Just the other day I was at the store and got one of those yard long receipts that include coupons and surveys and was thinking “I bet paper receipts are the next thing they’re planning to ban!”.
Unbelievable.
Those of us who were paying attention noticed all the cameras started to go up at intersections not long after the publication of "Unintended Consequences". There are no such thing as coincidences.
It is true that much street litter contains receipts.
What if you’re a Luddite and you don’t own a smart phone or a computer?
What about the Amish?
What about poor illegal aliens who only have the wet shirt on their backs?
What about the poor guys from Compton and Oakland? (OK, well they have Obamaphones...)
The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
Alan King
BINGO
I’m a great-granny - long retired except for still writing a column -
I did get my first PC in ‘86, before the Internet, email et al, were even whispered about.
I ran my own Internet business and have website for my artwork, etc. However, I refuse to pay bills online or otherwise give out account information where not absolutely necessary, etc.
I have my cell phone but refuse to dump the landline. Where I live, it keeps me from being cut off during an extended power outage.
My family demands I “stick around” for at least another 10 years - well into my 90’s - but I’m not sure I care too...LOL
CVS mile long coupons most affected.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.