[jcmanson]

Since when did stores start charging you for plastic bags? Up here in MD this week and I asked for a bag after I had already paid. He said that would be 5 cents. That's ok, I can carry it.

[jbock13]

Since when did stores start charging you for plastic bags? Up here in MD this week and I asked for a bag after I had already paid. He said that would be 5 cents. That's ok, I can carry it.

One word. Liberalism. It's becoming quite popular in occupied territory. I believe San Francisco charges a dime.

This is from the UK, but all crazy liberal nonsense comes from Europe and jumps the pond within a year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... harge.html

[Kolzilla41]

Since when did stores start charging you for plastic bags? Up here in MD this week and I asked for a bag after I had already paid. He said that would be 5 cents. That's ok, I can carry it.

There are certain stores in MD that do that. It's not a statewide thing.

[LUconn]

you should have thrown 5 pennies on the ground and taken one. That's gangster.

[Humble_Opinion]

Ha and the liberals wonder why businesses and corporations "ship jobs overseas". Idiots...

[jbock13]

Ha and the liberals wonder why businesses and corporations "ship jobs overseas". Idiots...

But it's not Obama's fault. See, when Obama's predecessor Ulysses S. Grant was President, he and his Republican buddies screwed up so bad, that even Obama today is still dealing with the problem while those obstructionist Republicans won't let this country get out of the ditch. Remember, they can't have the keys back.

[From the class of 09]

Why is this a bad idea? I'm not a crazy recycle everything guy but is using fewer plastic bags really a bad thing? According to a poster above it isn't a state law and is only being implemented by a few stores by their choice. Even in the case where a local government does mandate the fee/tax isn't that the right thing if the local populous wants the fee? I see the problem if/when it becomes a national issue but until then I have no problem.

[thepostman]

Isn't only those discount grocery stores like save-a-lot that keep their prices low be doing things like that? At least that is how it is here in Tampa. I mean if its done by free market decisions then I don't really have a problem with it, if its the government coming in and telling them to do so then that is where there should be an issue.

[jbock13]

I see the problem if/when it becomes a national issue but until then I have no problem.

And that's where you should have a problem with it. Liberals are like locusts, they hop from one mission to another. If you think they'll stop at the city level with their agenda, you need to take a closer look at them. Where did Obamacare get its model from? Massachusetts. Bingo.

Why do you think they leave a high tax Democrat state, complain about the taxes, and then move to the south and vote for the same politicians who screwed up their home state? Exactly. They want to tell you and I how we should live, but they should not sacrifice.

[Hold My Own]

I hear there are some local stores that will give you a discount if you bring in your cloth tree hunger style bags

[jcmanson]

This is a county law. EVERY store in the county must charge at least 5 cents per plastic bag.

[jcmanson]

I hear there are some local stores that will give you a discount if you bring in your cloth tree hunger style bags

Are you being sarcastic? This is a common practice among many big box retailers - Target, Wal-Mart, Kroger, etc.

[RubberMallet]

here its like a 5 cent discount to bring in those cloth or whatever cheap fabric they are. plastic bags are still free though although i assume that will eventaully change. and i guess i really don't have a problem with that.

i watched a guy buying a years supply worth of hotdogs and spray can cheese freak out that he didn't get his 20 cent discount.

[NotAJerry]

Reducing the amount of garbage, by taking out the insane number of plastic bags in use, is a bad thing? Giving people a financial incentive to be more responsible is a bad thing?

It's amazing how much tin-foil hat level "evil liberal" stuff this thread has.

[jbock13]

Reducing the amount of garbage, by taking out the insane number of plastic bags in use, is a bad thing? Giving people a financial incentive to be more responsible is a bad thing?

It's amazing how much tin-foil hat level "evil liberal" stuff this thread has.

Cause the problem is when you use government to force me to do what you like.