And make these
Now why can't we train people who are collecting welfare or chronically unemployed who are able bodied to make stuff by recycleling trash. Bet our ex-community now POTUS never thought of that.
Posted on 09/12/2010 11:01:43 AM PDT by dragnet2
Under new changes to the ban on plastic bags in Brownsville, shoppers will be charged an extra dollar for every transaction in which they use plastic bags after the ban goes into effect.
Starting January 5, the use of plastic bags will be banned inside the Brownsville city limits in effort to go green.
"We want to have a beautiful city,” Commissioner Edward Camarillo said. “We want to make sure that we take care of the environment."
The surcharge would be handed out by the stores.
Why are my groceries in a hand basket, and where are we going?
That’s ok, I will just scratch Brownsville off the list of cities that I will ever visit.
Unless they put them over their heads.
Now that would help Brownsville. They should have a People of Brownsville website like the People of Wal Mart website.
I hope the ICE’s going to have extra lanes open starting the 5th.
WM bags are fifty cents where I live
I heard the other day that the cloth bags hold bacteria. Be careful with produce.
Texas?
Bullets flying in Laredo are okay, but plastic bags in Brownsville are a crime?
Texas is on its way to being South California.
In my wife's hometown in Ukraine, plastic bags are for sale at the entrance to the large, outdoor markets. They're relatively cheap but needless to say, most shoppers will reuse bags until they're so stretched and torn, they can't be reused any longer.
I see nothing wrong with this. Waste is not a conservative value.
Fill the cart with items and head to the checkout. When told that there is an illegal TAX, leave the cart and walk out of the store. Get enough people doing this and the store will put pressure on the city to rescind the TAX. Maybe.
lol, good idea :)
I see nothing wrong with this. Waste is not a conservative value.
Slowing govt growth, trumps waste...............
Sorry commissioner—Brownsville will NEVER be a beautiful city!
And on this thread, it's sounding a lot like entitlement.
Yep....Cept our weather is like year round paradise compared to Texas....That's why I'm here and not there....lol
“I see nothing wrong with this. Waste is not a conservative value.”
By this reasoning, you must think the individual mandate in ObamaCare is also okay. After all, going without health insurance is not a conservative value.
The “value” is being free of government interference and meddling. FREEDOM is the conservative value at issue here.
You're confusing FREEDOM with FREE. Nobody's taking away your freedom to use plastic bags. Are you entitled to free plastic bags? This seems to be the "conservative value" most expressed on this thread. "Gimme my free bags! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"
And how you somehow equated my sentiments with support for Obama Care, I haven't a clue.
If the purpose is reducing the amount of plastic going into the landfills, consider the amount of plastic dumped from industrial shipping and packaging.
Tons of plastic from plastic strapping to pallet shrink wrap are thrown into landfills. Inside the cartons (which are closed with plastic box tape) are products wrapped in plastic or protected with some form of Styrofoam. The total amount of such plastic that goes into landfills would make the shopping bag contribution minuscule.
Then consider the amount of plastic goes into the packaging of the products we purchase. That screwdriver comes in a plastic container. That container of ice cream comes in a container of plasticized cardboard. That box of Wheaties holds a plastic bag for the cereal. And all that plastic is necessary if we are to live in a safe society free of contamination. This is a reality of modern society.
If plastic bags were such a concern, why not just promote the recycling of them. These bags are recyclable. I only wish that more of that plastic were recyclable.
This plastic bag taxation is manipulating ignorant people into a guilt for the realities of modern society. It is a tax for no good reason.
Now why can't we train people who are collecting welfare or chronically unemployed who are able bodied to make stuff by recycleling trash. Bet our ex-community now POTUS never thought of that.
Citizens with more than three functioning brain cells will sue...
Not the city, but the merchants charged with collecting the fees for not providing brown paper bags not affected by the plastic ban.
More data is coming out about food poisoning being spread by germs on reusable bags. For every case of food poisoning that occurs after the ban in the home of someone using reusable bags, the city will get a lawsuit.
The plastic bag ban will be rescinded in March.
Let's watch and see how I do.
Any other prognosticators?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.