It is not a bag tax. The 10 cents does not go to the city. It goes to the grocer or other store operator to offset the higher cost of providing a more costly paper bag or a reusable heavy plastic bag.
The bags actually cost about 7 cents each so the retailer picks up about 3 cents a bag but without an mechanism to cover future increases in bag costs, I suppose the 3 cents provides that buffer.
Economy plastic bags $18/1000 = 2 cents each. Supermarket quality = 4 cents each.
I reuse the ones I get from the store for kitty litter disposal.
Actually, they are $.023 each, buying them 1000 at a time from an online source (U-Line)
When a store buys them a million at a time, I suspect the price will decline precipitously.
This is just more eco-commie nonsense. Take a walk through the woods sometime. You’ll see lots of decaying plastic bags. Yes, they decay, down to nothing.
Plus, if most families are like mine, they tend to get re-used for other purposes.