Posted on 09/09/2021 6:53:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
The plastic tax could mirror a proposal from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, which would implement a 20-cent fee per pound on sale of new plastics
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Senate Democrats are "looking at" and "seriously" discussing a national plastic tax as part of their $3.5 trillion filibuster-proof budget reconciliation bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday.
"On the carbon and methane and plastic that you talked about, all those things are being looked at and seriously discussed," Schumer, of New York, told reporters on a press call.
Schumer said Democrats are attempting to meet President Biden's "bold goal" of making 80% of electricity in the U.S. "clean and green" by 2030 and reaching a 50% reduction of carbon emissions.
The plastic tax could mirror a proposal from Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, which would implement a 20-cent fee per pound on the sale of new plastics.
"A fee on the production of virgin plastic would give the market a stronger incentive to use recycled plastics," Whitehouse's office said in a press release. "It would also ensure the plastics industry bears some of the burden for the environmental damage it causes."
Democrats are also considering new taxes on carbon and methane as part of the budget bill, which contains new federal programs to expand the social safety net in the U.S.
Product prices are on the rise with inflation hitting a 13-year high. Despite inflation concerns among consumers, Democratic leaders signaled on Wednesday that they are sticking to a $3.5 trillion price-tag for their reconciliation bill.
Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has said $3.5 trillion is too high. Addressing Manchin's criticism, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Senate Budget Committee chairman, said his original reconciliation framework was $6 trillion so $3.5 trillion represents a compromise within the Democratic caucus.
“There’s a finite amount of sand, and its depletion will lead to catastrophic climate change.”
How did I do?
Yes, disaster.
...and contemplate you and me paying for it.
Just peachy keen.
Brings to mind lampposts, infamous walls, dungeons, guillotine, cliffs, helicopters, torture chambers, penal colonies, rope, bullets, knives, swords, poison, the rack, in other words the end of humanity. The beginning of madness.
They are laying the groundwork to tax every electronic transaction
Does the ass on two legs realize what this will do to health care costs?
How did I do?
You did fine.
Question is, what will they do when our patience with their stupidity runs out. I’m done and it only took about seven months.
Morons, all of them.
Same in PA where I live.
Elected by even bigger morons...................
So the only citizens who use plastics earn more than $400,000 per year.
The democrats are tax happy. They try to find new ways to go after our money.
The plastics industry is not paying its fair share of grift to K-street?
My father, who has passed away, left coffee cans filled with coins. I must have a dozen all filled with coins. He believe paper money would one day be worthless. He started saving the coins in the 1950’s. And yes I have one coffee can filled with silver dollars, half dollars, dimes and quarters.
its never the fiscally responsible approach of spending less. Its always spend more more more!
its amazing that these fools keep getting elected. Even dumb people know that when they don’t have money they can’t buy stuff.
“I’d be MORE than happy if everything went back to glass bottles, again. But then, the Socialists would just switch tactics and tax sand.”
The wood products lobbyists must be licking their chops at the prospect of confiscatory taxes on plastics.
I wouldn’t be surprised if tree growers were the first to propose the plastic tax to idiot lawgivers.
Silver is currently around $24 per ounce. The individual coins may be worth more as a collector coin, though...................
I don’t like taxation as a means of controlling supply and consumption but I hate all of the throwaway plastic we use. From k-cups to the beautiful detergent bottles and drink bottles to the disposable diapers and on and on.
Fortunately thanks to the global chip shortage caused by government COVID policies combined with the USA surrendering our own manufacturing base there will be no electronic purchases over $6.
What’s next...taxing the air we breathe?
You might have some valuable coins in those cans. Should consider going through them and separating out the older ones.
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