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

[fitterjohn]

That's exactly right. Tax us for using plastic bags to help fund "affordable housing." You can blame it on the massive influx of people to the state. There is such a high demand for housing that the costs have shot up well above national averages over the last few years.

Isn't that just capitalism which I thought was one of the fundamental principals of this country. Oh I know I was in second grade when everyone moved here to work at hp. All the sudden everyone was from Cali and everyone's dad worked at hp or some other computer type job. And now those same people complain about how much housing cost.

Funny because half my coworkers are out of staters and the only one who doesn't complain is the one from Detroit. The high cost of living was a selling point for them to move here. They have been here 3 years and still can't find the bad part of town or the bad part of the Denver metro area.

[Shooter45]

This among all other taxes is complete robbery. My family is the only thing that keeps me in this state but it's getting harder and harder to justify. Wyoming here I come.

[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?

[Ronin13]

Isn't that just capitalism which I thought was one of the fundamental principals of this country. Oh I know I was in second grade when everyone moved here to work at hp. All the sudden everyone was from Cali and everyone's dad worked at hp or some other computer type job. And now those same people complain about how much housing cost.

Funny because half my coworkers are out of staters and the only one who doesn't complain is the one from Detroit. The high cost of living was a selling point for them to move here. They have been here 3 years and still can't find the bad part of town or the bad part of the Denver metro area.

I can point them to some pretty bad areas of the metro area... Hwy 36 & Pecos area can get rough (in terms of the Denver area, compared to S. Houston, Gary, IN, and portions of LA it's not that bad).

And I get that it's capitalism that's the driving force behind cost of living being so high here, along with a myriad of other factors. But I can't help but think it also has a little bit to do with how the state has been run by the Dems over the last 15 or so years. Denver is doing all they can to push the "up and coming" image that it's pushing a lot of the lower income folks into areas outside the county, for the detriment of surrounding areas. It doesn't help that the democrats are notorious for their desire to raise taxes.

[BPTactical]

I will wholeheartedly endorse our politicians to use plastic bags.








Over their heads.

[GilpinGuy]

Since it's 25 cents per purchase, I'll have to insist on triple bagging everything, just in case.

[Skip]

0% Fed rate for ~8 years (so a Dim could look successful) isn't Capitalism. It's Corporatism (and I'm being kind).

What has happened in CO isn't organic. The Californians moving here with equity (to spend at any price) should still be stuck upside down in their houses for another decade or so. 0% then pushed up prices for legitimate buyers who had to compete with fake money. Banks getting huge margin for lending taxpayer money back to taxpayers on taxpayer backed loans (no risk).

People bought on payment, not price, and will be paying mortgages into retirement looking for a social program to take care of them because "Capitalism."

[Great-Kazoo]

Maybe the D's will compromise. Like another forum member says they have on gun laws

[Zundfolge]

0% Fed rate for ~8 years (so a Dim could look successful) isn't Capitalism. It's Corporatism (and I'm being kind).

"Corporatism" is how polite people say Fascism.

[Eric P]

Ok, for all the compromise a$$holes on this site...

Group this and the mag capacity repeal together and we have a deal. They both pass and are signed, or whichever one passes by itself is idled until the other passes and signed.