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 ...
The folks in Cali have truly lost their minds.
I have noticed on a Walmart receipt it says, “Scan with the Walmart app to save receipts.” I always pay cash when I can just because it’s, in theory, not traceable. Last thing I want to do is give Walmart, and who knows who else, that info.
As you’ve probably quessed, I’m a big proponent of private privacy. What I do with my money is my business and I’ll not knowingly share that info with anybody.
There is nothing too small, too minor, too intrusive, too insignificant for kalifornica to regulate or tax.
Just so...add to that product returns on cash sales
I won’t leave a filling station after fueling up without a paper receipt.
After having thus taken each individual one by one into its powerful hands, and having molded him as it pleases, the sovereign power extends its arms over the entire society; it covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated, minute, and uniform rules, which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot break through to go beyond the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces action, but it constantly opposes your acting; it does not destroy, it prevents birth; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, it represses, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupifies, and finally it reduces each nation to being nothing more than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.I have always believed that this sort of servitude, regulated, mild and peaceful, of which I have just done the portrait, could be combined better than we imagine with some of the external forms of liberty, and that it would not be impossible for it to be established in the very shadow of the sovereignty of the people.
We are very close, if not 95% of the way there.
Excellent...
While I’M printing.... I’ve got a few more EXPENSES to count among my deductions.... scout’s honor your honor!
And, per the article, you'll still receive a paper receipt if you ask for one.
Most people wad up their receipts and throw them in the trash.
I see nothing wrong with this. I accept e-receipts at any given opportunity.
Waste is not a conservative value.
CVS will need an entirely new business model.
When you pay with your phone,the vendor ap provides and keeps the receipt for ever
So true....
I work with hundreds of auditors, and they routinely disqualify receipts based precisely on this fading effect
Ting forgot about the toxic heavy metals being used to make computers. This is a serious obsessive fear being played out in the legislature. How about excessive EM radiation? Maybe modern political liberalism is a mental disorder.
Of course.
By Mexican, I mean citizens of Mexico.
Perfect...now hand over your phone to state/federal government....
Like say, CRIME?
Bad schools?
Fruit flies?
Obviously not... /s
It’s already here in rural Oregon. Local politicians are worshipping Portland athiests
Honestly, the state/Feds will love this, because they will be able to disqualify more items
But that is why taxpayers will fight this.
Taxpayers need those deductions to stay in business.
Yep. California is a cultural virus incubator. Eventually those viruses will spread to every state.
I’ll write “paid” on a chalk board and you can take a picture of it before I erase it. That’s your receipt.
What about no receipt? Will there be a tax if I request no receipt of any kind?
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