In Mayor’s Plan, the Plastic Bag Will Carry a Fee

The New York Times ^ | DAVID W. CHEN AND AL GORE

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Emperor- For -Life.

[murphE]

Weren’t there some people here that wanted this joker to be Vice President?

[Eric Blair 2084]

That’s the definition of Emperor. They don’t leave voluntarily.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

People have a ton of plastic bags sitting underneath their sinks. If they charge a fee, just reuse the suckers.

[Eric Blair 2084]

No. No way. Not on this website.

[ichabod1]

This all reminds me of forcing people to drive small cars totally ignoring the needs of people with families.

[murphE]

I’ll take your word for it, maybe I just read an article here about some “Republicans” making the suggestion.

[ichabod1]

They do not.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Families and unborn children are meaningless to libs...they love animals, Earth and trees but they hate people, families and unborn children.

[Eric Blair 2084]

It wasn’t on FR. I promise you.

There was some talk from people high on crack maybe, possibly suggesting that Bloomberg could use his billions as McCain’s running mate to even things out.

In retrospect, it would have been nice. Bloomberg is too smart to waste his money like that. Much better to save it to buy pissant city councilcritters to do his bidding and stay on as emperor.

[Still Thinking]

We’ll take care of your needs. In exchange they will obey.

Whew! You had me scared there for a minute. My needs are freedom and for all civil serpents to remember that I, as a civilian, am their boss.

[Eric Blair 2084]

No. Forget it. Keep that ridiculous idea of gubmint working for me and you between us. They’ll taze you bro!

They’ll drag you in front of Congressional hearing led by Nostrildamus Waxman and talk down to you.

They spent months holding hearings on steroids in baseball and asking Roger Clemens and McNamara very important questions like...”who injected what in whose buttocks and when?”

Meanwhile fannie and freddie were running amok and in the process of causing a global economic crisis.

Than they just claim it’s all Bush’s fault and elect a Marxist.

[CIDKauf]

When the fires burned Yellowstone we were told not to put them out. 20 years later...the new trees are awesome! When are they going to stop cutting down the poor trees to make all the newspapaers anyway....very soon in my view!

[CIDKauf]

Yea, but I’m off setting my carbon footprint by eating those foul beasts that flatulate more than I contribute using my charcoal burning machine...I’m going green!

[Eric Blair 2084]

That’s a great way of looking at it and explaining it to the libs.

Stop bovine flatulence and methane gas. Save the Earth, eat a steak or 10....it’s our duty.

[CIDKauf]

I love garlic pepper rubbed London Broil medium rare....AND I’m saving the planet!

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster (or whatever pagan god(z) you may worship) for this bit of sanity from Bloomberg...we all know that fertilizing land, growing cotton, transporting it to factories, processing it into canvas cloth, and then transporting it once again to the bag manufacturers (piecework labor, anyone?), has absolutely zero environmental impact!

As Ripley would say, "Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"

[elkfersupper]

Mayor Bloomberg is a waste of oxygen.

Trouble is, no matter how much you tax him for breathing, he will be able to pay it.

Now let me get this straight. Food is on an upward price spiral. The cost of the plastic bags is already included in the food. The cost of administering the plastic bag tax will be added to the cost of the food. New Yorkers will probably be taxed again for sending the bag to the landfill.

Why people put up with this crap, I will never know.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Eric Blair 2084]

He’s just a very silly man with a lot of money.