Posted on 09/15/2021 9:44:11 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The board of supervisors in Fairfax County, Va., voted Tuesday to impose a 5-cent tax on plastic bags used at grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores.
The measure, passed in a 9-1 vote, takes effect Jan. 1.
The new tax will not apply in certain situations, such as bags used for dry cleaning, prescription drugs, garbage, pet waste and leaf removal.
Revenue raised by the tax will help fund environmental cleanup and litter mitigation programs in the state.
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hell, i’d be HAPPY to pay a nickle to get rid of these stooopid bags here in ny.
Uh huh.
It isn’t what you’d be happy to pay, it’s what you’d be happy to make your neighbor pay.
You could always not use them yourself, you know?
Sounds so much nicer than reimburse us for hookers or some such, doesn’t it?
This is already in effect in the Portland area (which should surprise no one).
Once people use own bags or cloth. There won’t be money left for these boondoggles.
Maybe they should ban juice boxes with those little straws and plastic wrap those straws come in. Those little suckers are everywhere you go! Kids just toss them where they stand. As a state campground host, those are the biggest problem we have to pick up. They are terrible.
Its fer the chilren dontchyano.
“Tax the rich”
Earlier versions in other places left a question unanswered:
If dog owners hold dog droppings in their bare hands and people take out their garbage holding the wet trash against their chests in their arms and hands, will Wet Ones kill all the Covid germs?
Solution: get the sucker customers to pay. Always works.
Saying it's for litter is partially sound; it worked for people dumping tires everywhere back through the 1970s. At the same time, it punishes the caring for the littering of the uncaring. Need to increase the fines for littering.
I remember when plastic was going to save the world. Light, small, easier to transport, not killing trees. All of our consumptive problems would go away. Now it’s the scourge.
I am 100% for this. I would charge 1.00 per bag and when you turn them back in your get your 1.00 back.
Sick and tired of picking up these darn bags in front of my investment properties before I cut the grass.
My rural road is littered with them.
People are pigs.
“Taxes will not go up for anyone making less that $250,000 a year”
Ship of fools.
I started my first job in the grocery business as a teenager, and witnessed the genesis of plastic grocery bags first-hand. They were MUCH more durable at the start, you could put two twelve-packs of beverage in a single bag easily without any sign of ripping. You could even swing them over your head and they wouldn’t break.
The current bags are absolute garbage. They won’t hold more than a couple of pound without becoming compromised.
“Need to increase the fines for littering.”
Make the fine a million dollars — it doesn’t matter a whit unless someone ENFORCES it.
The fine for littering in CA is a cool GRAND — $1,000.
I’ve lived here all my life and met exactly NOBODY who ever got dinged for it.
We also have highway signage requiring “SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT.” I know ONE person who’s ever been told by the CHP to stay outta the left lane if they’re gonna crawl. I know NOBODY who’s been cited.
PERSONALLY, I think if enforcement of some of these “minor” Laws were vigorous, there’d be less violation of the more major Laws.
The population in Fairfax County is mostly government employees, government contractors and now “refugees”. Let them tax themselves if that’s what they want.
“The current bags are absolute garbage. They won’t hold more than a couple of pound without becoming compromised.”
A quarter of them don’t make it home without holes, rendering them useless to recycle for picking up after dogs.
Bingo.
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