California seeks to ban free, single-use carryout bags in retail

Al Kipnis wrote:

The politicians can't protect us from transit strikes but at least we soon won't need to worry about a free shopping bag making us late to work. We will have to buy heavy duty trash bags to put our garbage in instead of using well used paper or thin plastic bags for that purpose. I already have to use my own bags in many cases and it can be quite a hassle. While not the end of the world, I find this exercise in unneeded government regulation to be quite repulsive.

Al Kipnis.

Yes. I agree. After the elderly 60s 70s era revolutionaries and their idiot "love children" took control of California Government, the State's corrupt legal system, and failed academia at all levels, they put the implementation of 60s 70s era social and economic ideology on the fast track to Hell. They needn't wonder why the once golden State now ranks # 1 in poverty when compared to the other States.

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Ronald

If it's free than why are you complaining?

FREE? Maybe I can TAX it.

Mitt O bama wrote:

FREE? Maybe I can TAX it.

Mitt O bama.

Revolutionary Council has beaten you to the punch. Unless you are of the city's majority who use expensive taxpayer funded food stamps, increasingly impoverished non-welfare supported food shoppers must either pay to purchase their own heavily taxed Lowenthal "reusable" carry bags or otherwise, pay Big *(unionized)* Grocers a harassment tax to purchase TREE KILLING paper carry bags.

Ronald

I thought Mitt Romney was a bag man for some underworld investment company something like the mafia.

Morph wrote:

I thought Mitt Romney was a bag man for some underworld investment company something like the mafia.

Morph.

Yes. But you are a taxpayer supported Government dependent. Do you really consider yourself qualified to make such a judgement?

Ronald

While many of those high and mighty "Tea Party bagger" has sought to undermine these here United States of America's with their selfish communist propaganda.

Hitler and Communists along with other's have tired this route, but America has beat them back and history proves this.

Long lives wrote:

While many of those high and mighty "Tea Party bagger" has sought to undermine these here United States of America's with their selfish communist propaganda.
Hitler and Communists along with other's have tired this route, but America has beat them back and history proves this.

Long lives.

Well, if that is really the case, why is Russia using its military forces to surround the US in an effort to stop the spread of Communism?

Ronald

ok

While many of those high and mighty "Tea Party bagger" has sought to undermine these here United States of America's with their selfish communist propaganda.

Hitler and those Communist pigs along with other's have tired this route, but America has beat them back and history proves this.

California seeks to ban everything. Freedom...speech. Oh wait they have already done that. Enjoy that toilet of a state!

Just because you can.

Morph wrote:

I thought Mitt Romney was a bag man for some underworld investment company something like the mafia.

The left did a monstrous job defaming Mitt Romney.

I want more bags to carry away the great food deals for 2014.

wWhat the heck is single use about them exactly? There are still bags once they get home!

San Dimas, isn't that where the main Nut House is located? How do the nutjobs hit the keys with their arms in straight jackets? Peck at the keys with their nose?

Haven't seen a red herring all year, what do they look like?

Six_Of_One wrote:

wWhat the heck is single use about them exactly? There are still bags once they get home!

They are designed to be used a single time, then disposed of. Hence the name. Many responsible people, however, have secondary uses for the bags, such as lining small trashcans, picking up dog poop, etc. Now they must purchase bags for those purposes. This is our government at work.

Haven't seen a red herring all year, what do they look like?
Where do you find them?

Already in effect in LA and SF so basically its already implemented in the state, Just last week I paid 10 cents for a paper bag because my reusable ran out of room for a gallon of milk, not more than 5 steps out the door the handles broke and tore the bag in half which made my usual 2 block walk home carrying groceries a bit more of a chore. What I don't understand is everything I bought was already packaged in plastic, hell, I'm sure some of the food itself has plastic in it too. Banning plastic bags will have no environmental impact at all. All it does is puts more money in the pockets of corporate supermarkets, already I've seen more shopping carts on the sides of roads since it went into effect. If you don't drive and forget your reusable bag or can't afford a paper bag I wouldn't be surprised seeing people just take the cart home with them. I'm all for helping keep the environment clean, i don't drive, take the bus everywhere, but this is silly to be concerned with bags on the side of the roads that are bottlenecked with cars spewing exhaust fumes each occupied by one person only, the driver. And is it mandated the paper bags they sell the public be made from recycled paper or are they just decimating forests so some smug politicians feel better about bringing home all their pre packaged plastic groceries in biodegradable paper? The problem are the super markets. They are the polluters, give me a fruit and vegetable market,give me a butcher and a baker, where the hell did the milk man go? I don't want to pay 4 dollars for half a pound of cheese because it's packaging is expensive, it may stay fresh longer but we as a nation still throw away billions of dollars worth of food every year anyway. Things need to change but starting at the small end with bags is not going to do a damn thing.