What is happening to America?
No it's not, it's a "bag fee"....they said so. :)
So this means Bela Pelosi will be charged 20 cents everytime she goes to Virginia. I’m for it. :)
To be consistent, they should also place a $0.20 tax on each plastic bag used by newspapers to protect papers against rain.
I think Aldi does it right. The bags are heavy duty and very reusable.
How about a $.05 deposit on returnable plastic water bottles instead? It works for returnable bottles and cans and people actually make a living picking them up........
Always laughed as I saw poly lined diapers and plastic bags take hold.
It won’t be long before they are taxing us for using garbage bags.
I can picture this now,.... The bagger bags up your food putting 2 items in 1 bag and 3 in another and so on, the cashier is done ringing up the items but can not give you a total so you can pay while the bagger finishes, then all the bags are in your cart and the bagger says “that’s 14 bags” the cashier adds 14 x .20 cents to the bill and then the customer say, “No that is to many bags re-bag it, plus 3 bags are with ice cream and meat so you are over charging”, then a total amount is arrived at (after the bagger re-bags)and then you pay your bill, mean while the line is getting longer for people to check out and the customers are getting frustrated,...Hey looks like Virginia has come up with a real good tax...NOT. by the way, I am a Virginian and I will demand the wasteful bagger not use so many bags so please if you are behind me in line I suggest you move to another one :)
Was in a WalMart in Hawaii, had to buy cloth bags to take purchases back to the ship! They had NO disposable bags. This us something we should we should PROTEST LOUDLY if we see it coming. This us taking the global warming hoax to a new level. It must be STOPPED!
I would rather support a law that punishes litterers with death or dismemberment. I believe that would immediately cut down on liter bugs.
First conservatives have not figured out how to say, "you want to tax everyone because 1% can't put a plastic bag in the recycle bin. How is that fariness??"
Second, the reason to be FOR a recycled plastic bag is that it is made into FLEECE fabric and that keeps us warm, under fleece blankets or wearing fleece sweaters on a cool day. What is wrong with a plastic bag that becomes clothing? - now tell the 99% to recycle the bag.
We let the LEFT shape every darn story as their version of good of the planet.
Now it has spread to VA.
Shopping? What a bourgeois idea. It is for the unwashed, the peasants out there. Oh, me? He he, well if I spend my next Fannie Mae bonus at Saks Jandal that is ok. That's different.
This monster of a DC "metropolitan" area is eating everyone's lunch. Even NY is better. At least they have ideas in NY and the paraciticsm of NY City in large measure is enabled by the denizens of DC who don't mind the bailouts just so long as they get their 10% cut for processing fees. "Carrying charges, my boy" if one remembers Sydney Greenstreet's famous line.
I would like a Ten dollar deduction from the Paycheck of every Elected Official for every word Uttered out of their pathetic mouths
It’s toast. It got killed in committee yesterday.
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.
Give us yo money, or we’ll shoot.
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!
Stay ahead of the game.
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.
I’d rather use recycled paper bags anyway. Save the oil (or coal)used to make plastic bags for fuel.