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.
Californias good liberals see a green villain behind every corner. If something doesnt 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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Phil Ting was there to let us (aka little people) what he could do about. Basically he told us he could pass more laws to make crime more illegal. WTF!. The rest of his talk was a call for our votes because he is such a good guy. What a waste of skin he is.
Yeah, the Granola State: What isn’t fruits or nuts is flakes
I told a bunch of academics as I was passing out paper handouts that using paper isn’t destroying the environment. Paper is biodegradable and is a renewable resource. I don’t think they were convinced but every once in a while my background in the lumber industry re-emerges.
Gee, and I’ve always enjoyed those two foot long receipts I get after buying a single item at the store.
I rarely have paper receipts and usually have E-Receipts so this does not effect me but I will fight the leftist agenda and power grab behind it.
Trying to force people to use smartphones.
What about the undocumented, they won’t be undocumented if they are digial and not using paper receipts/money.
Wonder how well e-receipts will work out in the courts photo shop site gets idea...................
“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.”
Curious how much Square Inc and Mr. Dorsey donated to Mr. Ting’s election campaign.
I was working for a company that had been taken over by a hedge fund. They started by quibbling with food receipts while on the road. We were finally tolds, “I dont want to see any receipts that aren’t from Taco Bell!”, meaning, you are to cheap out at every turn.
So, I bought a thermal paper receipt printer that ran off Windows. I grabbed a Taco Bell logo from the internet and transcribed every letter as it was on the receipts we actually got. The only difference was the Taco Bell logo at the top.
It worked like a charm. We weren’t questioned on any meals after that.
The disappearing ink on the receipts is an irritation. Unless a person has a printer to copy all of those receipts.
E-receipts automatically give whomever you transacted your business with your email address.
Thanks, anyway.
Always ask for a paper receipt.
I guess it would mean a removal of a source of BPA. That could be a good thing.
I want a physical receipt. Its itemized and I want the record.
Businesses are required to give one on demand.
The email doesn’t disappear, it quickly gets onto the next page and is outa sight outa mind
I don’t feel like taking the time and energy to make up my own domain when I can take all my paper receipts and put them in an envelope to check them off at the end of the month when I get the bill
Tag it or put it into a folder.
You missed one very important aspect of this 'third party' information. The Supreme Court has ruled on several occasions that none of this third party data is subject to 5th amendment protections.
No. Don’t want to
Maybe they’re really after those CVS receipts with all of the bonus offerings that are printed out. I think I got a six-footer once.
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