Also, this fee was proposed as a method of cleaning up the city, the guy who proposed the fee and got it pushed through just revealed it was really just revenue generation.
The liberal, university town I live in, in Oregon, banned plastic bags, and charged .05 for a paper bag.
If I didn't have a re-useable bag at the grocery store, the Prius driving, earth-worshipping libs would glare at me in line as I bought 5 paper bags.
I just told them that I used the paper bags so I could use them to burn my trash outside.
The shocked looks were well worth the extra quarter.
Torn feelings here, while I Hate the Walmart plastic bag being ubiquitous and known as the “Texas Flag”
Is placing a fiscal gun to manufacturers heads the answer?
Why not just bust litterers?
On the few times that I've ventured out into Dallas (like the recent trip to MicroCenter), the bag fee ALWAYS came as a shock to me....
Glad to know it will be over soon...
Update: I have since moved to a red county in another blue state where plastic bags are aplenty.
Revenueing bastards
I live in Austin. Some time ago the city council banned stores from providing any single use bags, paper or plastic. I bought a gross of plastic bags on Amazon. Very cheap. When I go grocery shopping I just grab a handful from the trunk, where I keep them, and hand them over to the cashier when I check out.
Listen to that Dallas City Councilman squealing about losing tax revenue via repeal.
They were going ‘green’ alright... Yours
“We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from customers who, 1. did not like the fee, and 2. were confused by the fee,” said Gary Huddleston, with Kroger.
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Yo, Gary. Try checking Wiki under “Salt Tax”. Lots of deep insight there.
Occasionally those elected criminals are candid unintentionally.
The sanctimonious crap about reducing trash and helping the bugs and bunnies is just that.
Seems like robbing the taxpayers blind with "additional revenue" is still the driving force behind things.
Most of the stores I shop in Dallas haven’t offered bags at all for the duration of this ordinance. A few others have used their existing stock without the required physical changes (such as company name/address) and no charge—basically thumbing their noses at and leaving it up to the city to come down on them. And today, I saw plenty of bags floating around a parking lot next to Medical City. They can charge you five cents, but if you’re the littering type, it’s not going to change your behavior.
Better retailers, e.g. Nordstrom, simply ignored the fee, claiming their bags are re-usable and therefore not “single-use” bags.