CO Senate considering bill to charge $.25 for using plastic bags

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Originally Posted by Martinjmpr

As far as "funding affordable housing" goes, wouldn't it cost the government less to just find the people who "can't afford to live here" and buy them a bus ticket to someplace with a lower cost of living?

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Win.

We just need a really cold snap that lingers. Offer them a bus ticket to SoCal.

Problem solved. Well, maybe just .0000001% solved.

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Originally Posted by BPTactical

I will wholeheartedly endorse our politicians to use plastic bags.








Over their heads.

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Tied into a knot.

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Originally Posted by BPTactical

I will wholeheartedly endorse our politicians to use plastic bags.








Over their heads.

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BP in 2020 [Beer]

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Originally Posted by brutal

Tied into a knot.

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With a zip belt so they cant take it off

When I heard this I thought it was a crap thing to do. Then when I heard it was to subsidize affordable housing I was pissed. Most of the affordable housing when first completed is nicer than where I live. They raised property taxes to build a new school, for people that don't pay taxes. I live in housing that is affordable to me. Make these other folks figure it out. I have yet to see affordable housing or Habitat for Humanity houses look good much more than 2 years later. People that cant afford a house usually don't paint and mow.

I don't have an issue with the 25 cents but if they're going to sell or even mention it as a way to reduce waste and save the environment, then the proceeds better go to an environmental cause.

I think the hemp growers are behind this. You can't smoke it, so make bags out of it. If it ain't grown, it is mined. A website logo on the bag would be cool. Excuse me for my drivel.

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Originally Posted by ben4372

When I heard this I thought it was a crap thing to do. Then when I heard it was to subsidize affordable housing I was pissed. Most of the affordable housing when first completed is nicer than where I live. They raised property taxes to build a new school, for people that don't pay taxes. I live in housing that is affordable to me. Make these other folks figure it out. I have yet to see affordable housing or Habitat for Humanity houses look good much more than 2 years later. People that cant afford a house usually don't paint and mow.

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Just a few years after they build the new "low income housing" they level it as they animals living there have destroyed it. People that don't have to pay for it don't appreciate it so they break out windows, graffiti it, destroy it. Make it look like Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, which still looks the same a few years ago when I was there with plywood doors and plastic windows "waiting" for the government to pay for everything...

More "nanny state" creep. [Shake]

Some people in Nederland have their nose up the Boulder butt. One of the town trusties rammed this through town. The two big stores, in town, historically use 1/2 the plastic bags of any other store their size. Not good enough for this peckerhead. Only one business, in town, charges the tax.

An unintended consequence is that Ned. used to have dog poop dispensers stocked by plastic grocery sacks. Bag tax passes and all the dispensers dry up. Now town has to buy bags and had to install spiffy (expensive) bag dispensers. Cost more than the tax brings in.

It is sad driving East Colfax, out to Bennet, and seeing all the bags on the fences and in the weeds.