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Texas Lawmaker Wants To Stop Plastic Grocery Bag Bans
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | March 15, 2013 | Anna M. Tinsley

Posted on 03/20/2013 9:21:36 PM PDT by mom of young patriots

Texas State Rep. Drew Springer embraces freedom.

Even for plastic bags.

The Republican from Muenster recently filed "The Shopping Bag Freedom Act," a bill intended to block plastic-bag bans in Austin and other Texas cities.

Such bans are designed to push customers into buying reusable bags at the checkout stand or bringing some to the store.

Supporters praise the bans as a boost for the environment.

Critics deride them as unwarranted government intrusion that could increase costs for consumers.

"At a time of economic recession and with food prices at an all-time high, this hidden social tax on the poor will cause many to have to choose between necessary items such as milk and bread or having a reusable bag to carry their groceries," Springer said. "This type of government overreach must be stopped here and now.

"If a municipality can ban bags, what is to say they won't mandate how large a soda can be or how much salt one can put on their food."

Plastic bags have been a mainstay in grocery and convenience stores and restaurants for decades, edging out paper bags in popularity soon after they were introduced.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/03/15/4703821/texas-lawmaker-wants-to-stop-plastic.html#storylink=cpy

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bag; bagban; bagbans; ban; plastic; texas
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To: dalereed; mom of young patriots
“I am disgusted to be mistaken for a politically correct environmentalist and the string bag is a magnet for that kind of assumption”

We have bags from Hagerty Custom Car Insurance so the envirowenies know we burn lots of gasoline in the hot rods!!
Walmart bags. Whenever I'm gonna be around libtards, I haul out the Walmart reusable bags -- makes 'em froth at the mouth.


41 posted on 03/21/2013 6:28:51 AM PDT by Peet (Notice: Due to the high price of ammo, there will be NO warning shots.)
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To: q_an_a

There is another bit of data that we won’t be able to collect for a while. What happens when those so called green bags become as plentiful as klenex? I wonder if the liberals will like the look of those decorating the trees any better.


42 posted on 03/21/2013 6:32:58 AM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Personally, I don't mind the enviro-nuts using tote-bags. If they want filth and disease for themselves, so be it.

I often wonder if the liberals use their tote bags to clean up after their dogs. If not, what the heck do they use?

43 posted on 03/21/2013 6:36:52 AM PDT by old and tired
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To: old and tired

I like the one-hand pooper scooper, myself. ;-)


44 posted on 03/21/2013 6:45:06 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: mom of young patriots

I have said for years when asked “paper or plastic?” that I didn’t care. Recently I have learned that my response meant that I was “bi-sack-ual”!

Who knew? :)snort)))))


45 posted on 03/21/2013 6:49:27 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: mom of young patriots; All

Hasn’t it been settled that plastic bags are better to use because you can recycle plastic bags, evidenced by recycle bins at the entrance to some of the stores, as opposed to using porus fabric bags which introduce well-ducumented problems concerning the spread of bacteria? After all, cleaning fabrics takes energy, a carbon footprint problem according to liberals, and pollutes the environment with detergent.


46 posted on 03/21/2013 9:44:19 AM PDT by Amendment10
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Mea culpa. Recycling plastic bags must also take energy.


47 posted on 03/21/2013 9:45:30 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: MrKatykelly
when people start carrying their own bags around the store.

Good point.

48 posted on 03/21/2013 10:24:12 AM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: Amendment10

In this article, recycling as the environmental savior of mother earth is debunked.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/our-widespread-faith-recycling-is-misplaced


49 posted on 03/21/2013 11:42:37 AM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: mom of young patriots; All

Thanks for that link mom.

While the article makes good points about recycling not being economical, my concern is that plastic is not biodegradable, corrections wecome. So if we continue to simply bury plastic bags then one of these days it can probably be argued that the earth is made out of plastic. (a little bit of sarcasm here)


50 posted on 03/21/2013 11:51:58 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

Hmm. Yes, your point is well taken. If we were on a planet the size of the Moon, I’d be more concerned. There is probably some balance of recycling and disposal that will keep reasonable people happy. We’ve got centuries, maybe millennia before we reach that critical mass of plastic. Technology will change a lot in that time. Plastic might even naturally phase out in favor of some newer innovation. A government meddling to the degree Austin has is unnecessary and opportunistic.


51 posted on 03/21/2013 3:11:04 PM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: Amendment10

The plastic bags we use at our store say that they decompose in sunlight.


52 posted on 03/21/2013 3:21:11 PM PDT by momto6
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