Do they have a bag tax where you live?

That is not at all what I was saying.... I was saying with all the packaging that our food comes in, the bag is the least of the problems. And to put that extra expense on the people and not the company isn't right.

But that is how we work in America... if someone is getting paid, it's ok. Just look at tobacco... a product that kills millions, still being made and sold and they have government protection from lawsuits. So instead of taxing the manufacturer, they tax the person using it. I have been smoking for 40 years.... a pack of cigarettes can cost 100.00 per pack and I would still be smoking. They know this... they make money off this... and they keep making their deadly product.

Back on track... they can eliminate the plastic bags and just go back to paper like the past before plastic bags. Biodegradable. But they would rather just tax the people into submission.

And... as mentioned above... fine charge a deposit, not a tax... allow people to return them for their deposit back, like they did with soda bottles. But that will put too much burden on the company so again, they put it on the people.

No. They banned the plastic bags all together, as of two weeks ago. Stores can run through their supply, but that's it. They can't buy more.

Meanwhile, everything I bought at the store comes in plastic packaging or plastic wrapping of some sort.

Lot of fucking good a plastic bag ban does. We're back to paper, which were so bad we moved to plastic in the first place.

Chicago has had a bag tax for a while now.

Any charge to the company is going to get passed onto the consumer.

The tax on cigarettes is to pay the cost of looking after the people who get ill from smoking. Which you admit does happen but won't stop smoking. No one forces them to smoke they just don't have the will power to quit. Like the tax on fizzy sugar-laden drinks and foods that are causing an epidemic in obesity, no one forces them to get fat they just have to pay the cost of looking after them.

I agree they can go back to paper bags and the extra cost will be passed onto the consumer or did you imagine they use plastic because it's more expensive?

Companies went from glass bottles to plastic to keep the costs down, which was passed onto the customers. So you will pay more for glass and bear the extra cost and deposit.

We carry bags in the back of the car for when we go shopping. I carry a bag to keep my water, wallet, sunglasses, keys, tissues in. And a small collapsable bag. It's not much if you want to cut down on polluting the Earth.

They replaced the thin plastic bags for free with thick plastic bags that cost 10 cents and this is suppose to be good for the environment, I call bullshit!

Here I do agree that everything will get past down to the customer... I will disagree about the cigarette tax.

When they first implemented the tobacco tax here in in MN, they were advertising how smokers were costing taxpayers hundreds + a year... However, once the law passed, 30million of public tax money raised from the tobacco tax went to help pay for the new Vikings stadium. Public funds being use to help a "for profit" company! The owners did not want to pick up the tab. Gotta love that right?

As a smoker, I should have at the very least, received a free ticket to a game. But received nothing. Not even health care that my tax dollars are suppose to be paying for.

To me this is just another way the little guy gets shit on by our government.

You're supposed to use the thicker bags more than once.

It's thinking like that that will doom the planet.

I doubt if they announced it like that. More like they spent $30 million on funding a stadium and it came from public funds. But if you vote for corrupt officials you get corrupt officials.

Ralph's does that; also, CA banned single use bags, so they just made the plastic bags thicker so they are not considered "single use."

This just in...NYS Ban on plastic bags has been pushed back due to covid19.

Well you call wrong