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.
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Thermal printing? Haven’t seen that in years
Copy that.
United States next ban....California...
Absolute irrationality like this needs to be nipped in the bud or they eventually become “normal” everywhere. There is nothing normal or rational about this concept at all.
IRS requires taxpayers to provide [paper] receipts as proof of transaction.
Precisely!
This is a tax increase on evil rich businessmen and women
And transgenders.
Please tell me you are from the rural parts of Lane County. I grew up in Coos, and prefer to think of a rural Oregon where the local politicians, for the most part, fight against the Urban Willamette Valley and California values, even if they are out gunned.
Yes, Kitzhaber was elected from Roseburg—but he was a graduate of South Eugene (a pox upon the Axemen who I see have become the Axe—I’m surprised they didn’t become the Treehuggers).
“There is nothing too small, too minor, too intrusive, too insignificant for kalifornica to regulate or tax.”
Oh yeah? How about taxing the length of your schwantz?
I’m a business traveler. To document my travel expenses for reimbursements the paper receipts get pasted on a page and scanned. If I have to go through all the damn e-mails to gather them up it would be a bigger pain in the ash than it already is. Hey libtarts— paper is biodegradable. Might as well ban newspapers too. SF Chronicle, LA Times and Sac Bee Rat Rags would be an improvement.
Nope... They will force the taxman to adapt and change their policies. Look at what Ca has already done to this whole country with environmental laws. Constitutional or not, legal or not, rational or not, they do it anyways.
I keep all paper books also.
The Feds have an obligation to stop them.
https://politichicks.com/2018/12/it-is-the-federal-governments-duty-to-stop-california/
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.
An honest media would force them to prove these numbers.
If a paper receipt generates so much, how much do daily newspapers generate? I would think banning newspaper printed on paper would be a greater savings /s
Zebra printers.
All the while avoiding the worst offending piece of plastic. The disposable designer du jour water bottle. Spring, mountain, iceberg, etc.
Too many people love taking sips and tossing the bottle.
Sell the stuff in reusable bottles and 1 gallon refills if you must have the ‘pure’ version.
Eventually, enemy islam will ban everything but pedophilia.
One time I asked the clerk how many trees were cut down to produce the lengthy paper receipt she gave me. Of course, the poor clerk wasn't responsible but the point was made.
I always ask for a paper receipt for any of my purchases except when I pay cash. I'm old fashion and keep meticulous bank records. My email is cluttered enough without trying to sort through e-receipts for things I've purchased. If I do receive them, I print them out on a piece of 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of printer paper. Makes the problem of paper waste much worse, IMHO.
Next these California loony democRATS will outlaw toilet "paper". What will they replace it with? E-wipe apps for your smart phone?
I can't wait to see how those work.
And that is the problem with this concept. It forces everyone like it or not to be dependent on third party services and tools. Phones, Carriers, Email Accounts. Apps, Etc. This is a backdoor towards the final goal of eliminating cash where there will always be the dependency on third parties to make ANY and ALL transactions. Won’t be long and they will start to charge a “handling fee” for all these third party services. There will be no such thing as a two party transaction anymore.
Insanity
I’d love to see newspapers banned.
I despise them so much. My wife would have conniptions requiring thorazine.
Junk mail and paper in general I despise too. Unless it’s a check or green legal pictures of dead presidents, you can keep it.
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