Virginia proposal for 20-cent bag fee sparks debate

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[muawiyah]

Since this is Virginia we can count this as just another power play by the Republican Establishment.

They're trying to cram Mitt Romney down our throats, so why not a bag tax as well.

They'll show us for standing up to their BS concerning how the party primary is to be conducted (excluding everybody but their favorite candidate).

We need to send these pukes to PRISON for election fraud. We don't need a stinking bag tax!

To Hell with the Bag Tax and The High Taxers and their running dog lackeys!

That's what I've got to say about it.

[Gabz]

It’s toast. It got killed in committee yesterday.

[libertarian27]

How about a $.05 deposit on returnable plastic water bottles instead?

Bite your tongue! :>)

Many states are trying to get that through to fill the coffers.
With Bottles that are not returned vs Sales - the deposit amount is taken by the state government. It's millions of dollars per year- per state...(another tax)

[Boomer One]

Used to live in NOVA and work in MD. Liberal insanity of the Northeast is creeping into VA. This is a tax, plain and simple, under the guise of saving the planet. Liberals look for any way to raise money, often attaching the tax to a “good” cause, instead of cutting spending.

Just finished a review of the 10 worst states in which to retire. Common themes of high taxes, unfunded pensions, etc. And guess what - they’re all liberal states, most in the Northeast! Sad part is that responsible states will be asked to bail them out.

[SaraJohnson]

Give us yo money, or we’ll shoot.

[momtothree]

“... I started saving bags”

If you run out, check Ebay. Several friends of mine have purchased the plastic bags (I think they are called t-shirt bags and can be purchased in bulk). The cloth bags are also available for way less than the ones at a store. Just a FYI for you to keep in the back of your mind.

[hal ogen]

All these pathetic socialist-tell-you-howw-to-live-your-lives morons have attended the same seminar. Under the guise of saving the creepy “bay”, they steal our money (meh...bag “tax”). To celebrate their ignorance, I think I’ll go to Trak Auto and buy some recycled oil to pour down the throat of a baby dolphin in the bay (after I burn a few old truck tires in the back lot).

[fatnotlazy]

I like reuseable bags now, especially since my local market has such flimsy plastic bags. Put anything weighing more than 5 ounces in one of those bags and the bag breaks. If you don’t have a cloth bag, you need to double or triple the plastic bags. Otherwise, your purchases won’t make it to your car.

[Round 9]

I’m not recycling a damned thing. I use as many of the plastic bags as I feel I need and toss them in with the garbage when I’m done. I don’t feel the need to bend to the whims of people easily cowed by junk science.

[Psalm 144]

“What is happening to America?”

The result of public “education” being in the hands of progressives for the past century.

[mrs. a]

If this tax comes to my are, I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do.

I’ll go to Sam’s Club and buy me some of those big boxes of plastic bags that the small shopkeepers use and hand them out for free in front of grocery stores.

How can I get in trouble for that? After all, women and minorities who take my bags are those hardest hit by this new tax...they are just trying to feed their children...IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN!

[Sacajaweau]

I don't recycle either. I figured 10 million people spending 1 hour per week washing cans, removing labels and taking them to the bins in our complex is totally stupid.

Let the garbage go to recycling centers for sorting. It worked. BURN the burnables and send recyclable to wherever. We did it SUCCESSFULLY and abandoned it.

[BobL]

Stay ahead of the game.

http://www.samsclub.com/sams/shop/product.jsp?productId=170094&pid=CSE_Froogle&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=109680

Each time they mention this crap in Texas, I buy 1000 more. I’m at 4000 now and will go up to 10000 if it really becomes law here (something always possible with this governor)...easily enough for the rest of my years.

[derSchurfer]

I’d rather use recycled paper bags anyway. Save the oil (or coal)used to make plastic bags for fuel.

[FrankR]

I'm thinking of starting an anti-green movement; not that I'm for harming the environment, but to slow down the creeping insanity from environmental whackoes.

Even the stores here in Georgia are pushing for those bring-your-own "carry bags" and I've told them the day they stop providing bags for their goods, is the day I'll find a new store.

This plays into the liberals lust to become a European welfare state, i.e. when I was stationed in Germany in 1965 everyone had to bring their own grocery bags. I thought it was stupid then, and now they're bringing that mindset to America.

The fact is with liberals is, they don't want to be "enviromentally correct"...they just want all the rest of us to be "enviromentally correct".

Meddlers all, it shows in the ones they elect to public office. But - like obamacare not being about actual healthcare - enviromentalism is just another guise for gaining control over our lives and fortunes.

[6SJ7]

I started saving plastic bags years ago when they first started talking about this. They’re easy to save, and don’t take up much room—I smooth and fold the bags as I bring them into the house, and then I can get a whole bunch of bags into one bag.

Awhile back, I purchased one of those Simplehuman bag holders. Roll up the bags and stuff them in the top slot. When you need a bag, you pull one from the side opening. It mounts on the wall with two wood screws. Very neat way to stow plastic bags.

[SkyDancer]

First they claimed using plastic bags would save trees. Okay, so now what? Some stores will give you reusable bags if you buy a certain amount of goods.

[Chode]

people can start buying bags in bulk online and bring them with them... screw their tax

[blueunicorn6]

APPLY NOW FOR THAT GOVERNMENT JOB YOU’VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF!!!!! BE A GOVERNMENT BAG INSPECTOR!!!! Send your resume, along with a blood sample proving you’re related to one of our present employees, and copies of your donation checks to the Democrat party, to Box 56. ARE YOU A DEMOCRAT????? WELL THEN, IT’S IN THE BAG!!!!!

[Hot Tabasco]

With Bottles that are not returned...(another tax)

You have to admit, once the 10 cent deposit was added to the bottles and cans (at least here in Michigan) it certainly made it attractive for others to pick them up and redeem them for the cash rather than leave them lying by the roadsides and sidewalks and parks........Our roadways cleared up almost overnight. The only containers you see on the ground now are the plastic water bottles.....