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2017-03-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by badanov 2017-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 They enacted something similar (charge you 10 agurot per plastic bag) in Israel a few months ago. So, hardware stores started selling packages of plastic bags, and most people come to super with their own.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-27 02:19|| 2017-03-27 02:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Plastic bags also come in handy as hell well walking the dog. If the pols are that concerned just require markets to have a recycle bin in the store. A lotof stores already do anyway

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-03-27 05:49|| 2017-03-27 05:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Dallas, TX levied 5 cents a bag for a while but the citizens teamed up with the bag manufacturers and started preparing a law suit. The city council quickly rescinded the tax.

Other tax and spend cities in Texas were never challenged like that have since doubled the tax to 10 cents a bag.

Posted by Whuck the Hairy7611 2017-03-27 07:11|| 2017-03-27 07:11|| Front Page Top

#4 to prevent disease from reusable bags the govt will eventually

- mandate washing them every other week
- mandate devices in the bags that light up if they haven't been washed (this should bring the price of the bag up to $20/per)
- fines up to $50 for using a reusable bag that hasn't been washed on time

Posted by lord garth 2017-03-27 09:44|| 2017-03-27 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 The type of fellow that wipes once and wonders at the efficacy of a tampon tax.

Were I to pass a grocery daily I could throw the day's meals in a backpack (that would frighten some, looking armed tactical survivalist and all.)

As it is, a monthly run for dog food, catfish food, horse food, people food, fuel and other consumables(beer, bullets) pretty much fills my truck bed.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-27 11:22|| 2017-03-27 11:22|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not about the environment; it's about the tax grab. Dems always posture around "issues" but it's always about the dollars.

Posted by regular joe 2017-03-27 11:53|| 2017-03-27 11:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Dems always posture around "issues" but it's always about the dollars.

Climate change, fracking, Delta Smelt fish, carbon emissions, the children.... need I continue ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-27 13:23|| 2017-03-27 13:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't forget lice and cockroaches. Just think bags in homes with thirty cats or more. Welcome to your new home fellas.

Posted by Dale 2017-03-27 18:36|| 2017-03-27 18:36|| Front Page Top

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