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1 posted on 11/17/2010 9:09:50 AM PST by WebFocus
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LA County has a $500 million+ budget deficit and they’re spending time and resources on outlawing plastic bags! They can carry their groceries home in the same hand basket in which they are going to hell.


2 posted on 11/17/2010 9:12:08 AM PST by La Lydia
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Outside of California this idea seems years away at best. But it could only help local businesses, which wouldn't have to buy thousands of bags each month from China.

And I'm sure it'll be a great help to the customers, who now apparently have to either fork over a dime or try to carry the goods out of the store in their arms??

3 posted on 11/17/2010 9:12:19 AM PST by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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ORIGINAL STORY HERE :

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-plastic-bags-20101117,0,1602701.story

L.A. County passes sweeping ban on plastic bags

The ordinance, which by 2012 will cover 1,000 stores in unincorporated areas, also will require supermarkets and pharmacies to levy a 10-cent surcharge per paper bag. Proponents see it as a model for California.

The ban, which goes beyond ordinances adopted in Malibu and San Francisco, most directly affects 1.1 million people who live outside the county’s incorporated cities. But anyone shopping at stores in such areas would encounter the new rules.

Opponents suggested they might go to court to try to block the ban before the first phase takes effect in July, when 67 large supermarkets and pharmacies must stop providing disposable plastic bags. By January 2012, the ban will cover 1,000 stores throughout the county. The ordinance also seeks to keep shoppers from turning to paper bags as an alternative by requiring stores to levy a 10-cent surcharge per paper bag.

The goal, officials say, is to get people to adopt reusable bags made of cloth or durable plastic that can be wiped clean. An exception is being made for produce bags that keep raw vegetables and meats from being contaminated by other groceries.

CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE REST OF THE STORY.

READ THE PLASTIC BAG ORDINANCE HERE :

http://documents.latimes.com/la-county-plastic-bag-ban/


4 posted on 11/17/2010 9:13:27 AM PST by WebFocus
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So how will people that ride the bus get their groceries home? They’ll have to pay 10 cents extra for paper bags.

Another tax on the poor.


5 posted on 11/17/2010 9:14:16 AM PST by Brookhaven (Voter Fraud is Treason)
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Who gets the dime per bag? More government revenue...


6 posted on 11/17/2010 9:16:19 AM PST by edcoil (Today, we start fixing stupid.)
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They are trying to force californicos to use "reuseable" bags which have already been shown to carry diseases.

Buy a supply of your own plastic bags and carry a few in your pocket/purse when you go shopping.

7 posted on 11/17/2010 9:16:19 AM PST by Ben Mugged (Your refusing to accept the facts doesn't change the facts. Matt Dillon)
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PeaPod will have a resurgence.


8 posted on 11/17/2010 9:16:20 AM PST by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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I wonder what the untended consequences of this will be?


10 posted on 11/17/2010 9:17:28 AM PST by ColdOne (Repeal Healthcare......NO COMPROMISE.......ever!)
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We can now look forward to the importation of illegal workers from countries whose women specialize in the weaving of raffia baskets and horsehair ‘borrals’, work that native Americans won’t do.

The invisible hand will work its will on California and they will be clueless as to what is happening.


11 posted on 11/17/2010 9:18:22 AM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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Paper is made from trees. I guess that’s okay if trees are cut down, they say there is a lot of them in the Amazon.


12 posted on 11/17/2010 9:19:34 AM PST by Beowulf9
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So now you will have to buy $2+ made in China woven bags to tote your groceries. These bags have been proven to harbor bacteria from leaking packages and are a health hazard.
Only have 5 woven bags? No problem, make more trips to the grocery store. Using more gas.


14 posted on 11/17/2010 9:20:57 AM PST by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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What are people going to pick up their dogs crap with? Better star hording bags to sell on the black market!


15 posted on 11/17/2010 9:22:34 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Where is our military?)
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Although the ban will affect only the unincorporated areas outside L.A., it's seen as a model for the rest of the California

Interesting, the Marxist degenerate cities, populated with non producers, ride roughshod over the producers that supply their food, water and electricity.

The same mechanism that has gotten Kaliforniastan to the grand economic position it is now.

16 posted on 11/17/2010 9:23:23 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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I have a soccer ball bag from Sports Authority that
works great as a grocery bag (or laundry bag). Its
a large bag made from net material, can be washed,
and holds as much as you can carry.


17 posted on 11/17/2010 9:26:38 AM PST by rahbert
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In following the traditions of the City of Bell, Los Angeles has found a source of income to offset their 1 billion dollar deficit due to their shortfall on the pension funds and to pay for 600 million dollar high schools.


21 posted on 11/17/2010 9:30:56 AM PST by realcleanguy
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Time to buy stock in whatever corporation produces small waste-bin liners, because a spike in sales may be coming. Many of us save our plastic bags for that purpose.


26 posted on 11/17/2010 9:38:09 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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Plastic is out here in Hawaii as of Jan. 1.


27 posted on 11/17/2010 9:41:35 AM PST by fish hawk
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But it could only help local businesses, which wouldn't have to buy thousands of bags each month from China.

And they can sell you more bags with their names on it that you pay anywhere from $.15 to $5.00 to purchase and provide their stores free advertising. Go ahead, ban the throw away bags, the stores will make more money selling bags that they used to give away for free.

However, most of those "eco-friendly" bags are made in China, too!

28 posted on 11/17/2010 9:47:39 AM PST by Tamar1973 (Germans in 1932 thought they were voting for change too.)
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I know what would piss them all off, while shopping buy a some Heftys kitchen trash bags and demand that your groceries be packed in them, when you get home you can re-use those bags as trash bags.

That would drive the libs standing in line INSANE!


29 posted on 11/17/2010 9:48:28 AM PST by GraceG
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Why does everything have to be so hard?

Charge for the plastic bags and when you come back into the store bring them with you and the store refunds your money and they get recycled...just as we had returnable bottles decades ago. It was no big deal.

And do this for plastic bottles etc as well.

I’m one person who is sick and tired of people throwing these bottles out their car window ..my road is a mess.


31 posted on 11/17/2010 9:50:13 AM PST by hoyt-clagwell (5:00 AM Gym Crew)
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