[Oldeconomybuyer]

This little guy needs to start paying taxes ...

[TexasRepublic]

The parents can begin recycling efforts by sending the dirties to that tax-happy politician's office.

[TXBubba]

extra incentive to get their youngsters potty trained

What parent in their right mind doesn't want their child potty trained? The problem is that too many parents try to push it before the child is physically able to do it. I would work on making diapers that are more biodegradable myself. (Is that a word? Biod?)

[Willie Green]

A ¼¢ tax isn't going to provide any economic incentive for recyling.
It is much too small, but will accumulate revenue for the state.

IMHO, Democratic Sen. Don Perata should personally collect a "deposit" instead.

[mhking]

I tell ya what - I'll send him all the sh*tty diapers that we go through each week. He can recycle them all he wants. In the meantime, he can keep his grubby paws off of my wallet.

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm so confused...

I thought they were discouraging cloth diapers and encouraging disposable diapers to conserve water? Now they want to tax disposable diapers? Won't that push people back to cloth diapers?

My brain hurts again...

-PJ

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

So now the nuttiest state in the Union wants to break the 100+ year ban on under age child labor and make little diaper wearing toddlers pay to soil their drawers? Outrageous!

I hate California. All we need is a good, strong quake and it'll slide off into the sea.

[ZULU]

"The diapers can take up to 500 years to decompose. More than 20 billion of them were sent to U.S. dumps in 2000, Perata said."


I have a great idea. We can require each recipient of $10.00 in U.S. foreign aid to accept 1,000 dirty diapers.
They can then use them to spawn a recycling industry, using the processed feces as fertizer, so we won't have to keep feeding them!

[anymouse]

Maybe he is trying to burn his diaper in protest. LOL!

[Normal4me]

Are they going to tax 'Depends' diapers too? That ought to go over like a fart in church with the older folks.

[Amerigomag]

How many more examples need to be posted on this forum before it becomes crystal clear that most of California's problems emminate from the legislative rather than executive branch.

Davis has certainly acted feloniously but the results of his lust for political power pales in comparison to the long term damage created by the Democratic leadership and ultra liberal mind set in the legislature.

Given a choice between the recall of Davis or Wesson/Burton/Agelidies/Lockyer, I'd prefer we rid ourselves of reasoned, commited, boarderline communists instead of a superfical, corrupt poltician.

We can sway the corrupt politican with public outrage but even an organized, outraged citizenry can't influence a zealot.

[anymouse]

Q: Why is a leftist politician like a diaper?

A: They're always on your @$$ and full of $#!t.

[Guillermo]

It's probably safe to say this Politician is all for illegal immigration.

Funny how he whines about the environmental effects of a "population explosion".

[FourPeas]

An Oakland lawmaker wants to give parents an extra incentive to get their youngsters potty trained

Does this guy have kids?? Every parent looks forward to the day when their child is potty trained. We don't need any added incentive, nor does the state need to stick it's nose in....wait a minute, I'm getting an idea.

FP

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

That's unique,"A SH*T TAX"!