Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.af09375837a21e6bf486e0c8aed43c9a.01&show_article=1 ^

[CSA Rebel]

Residents of the US capital may have to dig a little deeper into their pockets when they go grocery shopping once the city slaps a five-cent levy on each plastic bag issued at the checkout line.

The measure, which takes effect on January 1, 2010 and is the first such initiative in the United States, seeks to make consumers bear the brunt of clean up costs for the bags which currently are dispensed for free with a customer's purchases.

[Irish Eyes]

To be honest I hate plastic bags. I have been using those reusable bags now for over 2 years

I hope that you are not buying any chicken or other raw meat. Not good with the reusable bags.

[Kaslin]

Don’t tell me you buy your chicken and other raw meat unwrapped?

[Irish Eyes]

Don’t tell me you buy your chicken and other raw meat unwrapped?

LOL..no, but it has been known to leak occasionally

[FrankR]

"To be honest I hate plastic bags. I have been using those reusable bags now for over 2 years "

Again...to be honest, that is YOUR choice, not the governments, and that should be what America and freedom are all about.

[Kaslin]

Exactly