[iceskater]

Richmond ping.

Time to gear up and get busy.
The General Assembly is in session and they’re looking for ways to take more of your money.

[Venturer]

First they wanted to save the trees, so they went to plastic. Now they want to save the plastic, then they want to force the use of cotton bags. So we have to wash them and wste the water used to do that.

I wish they would just leave well enough alone.

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Most democrats are brain diseased.

[Gator113]

Expect to see much more dog crap on your walks.

[Brookhaven]

I hop they plan on using the money to sterilize reusable bags between uses so people will quit getting sick from them.

Reusable bags are expensive, have to be washed between every usage (which means they use more natural resources over their lifetime than plastic), and transfer harmful bacteria to your food.

Plastic bags are cheap, recyclable, and are sanitary.

So, which one are the greenies behind? I swear, sometimes I think the greenies are making the wrong decisions are purpose. Nobody could be wrong this consistently due to pure stupidity.

[McGruff]

[insert facepalm here]

[The Working Man]

I’m not really surprised at this. Personally I prefer the paper bags, they were so useful for many other things once you got them home. And the plastic ones get used for used Cat litter. So it all works out I guess.

[sickoflibs]

Time to go back to paper bags in VA.

Plastic bags were not that great idea to begin with, Wasnt that a ‘save the trees’ idea?

[NEMDF]

Of course, they cannot expect poor people to pay this or to purchase their own, reusable bags, so there will be an exemption for those using food stamps to buy their groceries.

[rhombus]

So grocery stores are supposed to keep track of this and mail the taxes into the government? Idiotic feel-good nonsense.

[joe fonebone]

I use paper bags... just doing my part to keep a lumberjack employed....

[Question Liberal Authority]

The original purpose of "saving paper" wasn't to save trees. It was to save landfill space. Trees are a crop that grow, are harvested, and made into useful products, just like soybeans or corn.

But, nobody cared to save landfill space that much, so the environmentalists sexed it up by making it sound like trees are some sort of endangered species. When plastic bags first came to market, they were hailed by environmentalists as a way to save trees. Now they're a symbol of evil consumerism.

Maybe I should start hoarding plastic shopping bags. Right now I can purchase 1000 of them for about $20. If this stupid tax goes into effect, that case will be worth $200.

[DGHoodini]

Democrats playing to type: LYING THIEVES!

[SeaHawkFan]

What bugs me are baggers who only pu a couple of items in a bag. They use twice a many as needed. They are much stronger than most people think.

[kevkrom]

Just north of there, in the People's Republic of Maryland, Montgomery County just instituted a new 5 cent "bag tax" on all plastic and paper bags (excepting paper bags for "ready made foods", like restaurant take-out).

What sucks about it is that I'm in lose-lose situation. If I don't change my habits, I have to pay an extra tax to the b*stards every time I go shopping. If I do change my habits, then they get their warm and fuzzy "green" feeling and move on to the next way to ruin my life.

[Sopater]

But just think of all the carbon that is being “trapped” in these bags and prevented from being released into the atmosphere.

Plastic bags are combatting climate change!

Save the plastic bags!

[dragonblustar]

How about the “old bag tax”. You could make a mint off of Helen Thomas.

[freespirited]

It's not about money, according to Morrissey. No, he just doesn't like the fact that people use plastic bags and he think they should stop.

This dude should move to California, he'd fit right in.

[Pontiac]

First the environmental statist wanted to do away with the paper grocery bag because making them was Deforesting the nation.

Now they want to do away with the plastic grocery bag because the plastic is not biodegradable.

I think what the Environmental Statist really wants is for everyone in the world dead and the plan is to make it so difficult to bring home food that we all give up and starve to death.

[USMCPOP]

Morrissey:

http://dlcc.wiredforchange.com/o/5991/p/wfc/web/candidate/biography/public/