Seattle officials propose 20-cent grocery-bag fee (Jan 1, if city council approves)

The Seattle Times ^ | April 3, 2008 | Sharon Pian Chan

[Stoat]

In March, Nickels ended the purchase of bottled water by city departments and proposed requiring all new Seattle taxis to get at least 30 miles per gallon. Last fall, he hosted a conference for U.S. mayors on climate change and persuaded more than 700 mayors to sign on to a pledge to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions based on the Kyoto Protocol.

"Never mind that Kyoto was rejected by BOTH Clinton and President Bush....if the US won't sign it and make it Federal policy, we'll just adopt it anyhow because we're hysterical Lefties and that makes us so very much smarter than anyone else...."

[Recovering_Democrat]

Seattle voters deserve it...keep sending Socialists to high office, you get more and more and more and more and more of your hard earned money confiscated by the Greedy Hand of Government.

[Not A Snowbird]

Pingaling!

[mountaineer1997]

I agree with the charge for plastic bags. What a waste! I have used those large Sam’s insulated bags for years, and resent the waste that the throw-away bags produce.

[NonValueAdded]

Yep, they asked for it, they got it. Let them feel the pain.

[Fast Moving Angel]

The government has no businsss dictating this issue. The cost of bags is factored into the cost of goods charged by the stores. If the stores want to ‘’give’’ away bags with their groceries, it’s their business.

[AndrewB]

Loook for retailers to support this measure. Those bags are expensive!

[bill1952]

>I agree with the charge for plastic bags.

and naturally, you and the government have the right to tax everyone for their choices when they do not agree with yours.

[hinckley buzzard]

Every piece of plastic ever made is still with us in the environment..."

Stupidity on parade.

[pnh102]

Those bags are expensive!

Not that we don't pay an arm and a leg for food as it is. If I lived in Seattle I would just do my shopping in the suburbs.

[Stoat]

I agree with the charge for plastic bags. What a waste! I have used those large Sam’s insulated bags for years, and resent the waste that the throw-away bags produce.

And you don't feel that this should be left up to the free market, but that Government needs to step in and not ban them but make money off of them?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Maybe they’ll realize their mistake...but I doubt it. Somehow the libs will begin to blame “Big Bag Manufacturers” for the cost.

[ml/nj]

To be collected and spent by the political class.

(Here in NJ they say they want to tax fast food. They think we don't know they're already taxing fast food at 7%, which means NJ probably makes more on a Big Mac than the McDonald's shareholders do.)

ML/NJ

[pnh102]

Why not mandate all Seattle residents just kill themselves? That will reduce the city’s carbon footprint down to 0.

[angkor]

>>>>I agree with the charge for plastic bags. What a waste!

I read somewhere they cost less than one penny to produce and biodegrade after 4 months.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Publicly-humiliated-by-our-state-once-more Ping.

[NonValueAdded]

Screw ‘em. Maybe they’ll carry home the bug spray one week and their produce the next in their nice little canvas pouch of death. Let Darwin sort ‘em out.

[NormsRevenge]

elect idiots and pay forever for that mistake

[DManA]

That would be regressive. They’ll need another government giveaway program for the poor to compensate. Isn’t it neat how this works?

[rockrr]

No chit!

Do you suppose they lie awake at night scheming to bring shame on the once great state of Washington?