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.
AND-—It takes very high heat to make glass, and you cannot make glass with Solar or Wind power.
Over $600:
Property taxes
House insurance
Some Auto insurance
Credit card payments
Medical payments
Auto leases & purchase payments
As IF the economy doesn’t have enough problems.
WalMart’s not gonna be happy. 90% of the crap in their stores is made of Chinese plastic.
Keep all silver coins from 1964 and older. They still have actual SILVER in them. The rest, spend on bubblegum. ;)
Pennies, even really old ones, have little to no value.
As long as only the rich are affected, I’m good.
A war on plastics is just as much a war on toilet paper. What a bunch of nitwits. Toilet paper is made at 5,000 meters per minute into 14,000 pound rolls. It then later gets converted to small bath size rolls on rewinding machines and log saws.
Try making toilet paper at 5'000 meters per minute without wet strength glue to hold the wet sheet together without breaking!
For the children…
These morons don’t know that most medical devices use plastics-for sanitary reasons. Autoclaves and disinfectants use more energy and are worse for the environment.
Its not about saving the planet, just “revenue enhancement”.
They know
They don’t care.....................
Brave New Whirled or what?
Chuckie ain’t just an action figure, he’s a regular Hillary on ‘Roids.
With leadership like this (ignoring the barbarians in the CONgre$$ional compound) , they should just declare us a tinpot dictatorship and plant banana&palm trees everywhere.
We’re doomed.
No wonder the U.S. never made it into the Book of Revelation.
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Just wait until they start their ‘Retroactive Tax’ campaign.
Make you pay taxes on income you already paid taxes on for the last four years under Trump. EVEN IF YOU DIED SINCE THEN!
They did that under Clinton.....................
Maybe NYC is the Whore of Babylon!....................
‘under Clinton’ has multiple meanings, I reckun.
Hey, if you can vote after you croak, why not pay more taxes too?
Them Dems got ya covered comin’ and goin’.
‘under Clinton’ has multiple meanings, I reckun.
Hey, if you can vote after you croak, why not pay more taxes too?
Them Dems got ya covered comin’ and goin’.
““”bold goal” of making 80% of electricity in the U.S. “clean and green” by 2030” -— What a disaster the next few decades will be.”
Has Biden ever taken a ride on the NJ Turnpike?
“Maybe NYC is the Whore of Babylon!.....”
Hmmm. Good point. Many whores in NYC.
Then again, DC has an abundance of prostitutes too.
Flip a coin.
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