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

[Irving]

Spending the taxes on eco-religion doesn't sound fiscally responsible to me.

Reduced waste IS fiscal responsibility. As is mitigating future damages that are preventable.

[Gman]

Reduced waste IS fiscal responsibility. As is mitigating future damages that are preventable.

So...I'm paying for my waste disposal, and paying a tax on plastic bags helps me how?

Now if you want to talk about reduced fiscal waste in Govt...

[cstone]

[Irving]

So...I'm paying for my waste disposal, and paying a tax on plastic bags helps me how?
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The way this bill is written it doesn't, but of course you're intentionally missing the point now.

[RblDiver]

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

Triple? Hell, I'll go through the self checkout and just dump them all in. Ten-tuple bag it all!

[BPTactical]

Hammer, meet nail

[crays]

Honest question:

Just how is this monitored at the store level? Is it Honor System?
If anyone has actual knowledge/experience in this area, I would be curious to know.

I would assume it is a standard charge that requires a manual override? Maybe SNAP card will automatically override it? Will a person with a SNAP card that may be paying by other means get the manual override (the bill only requires eligibility for SNAP). What if I technically qualify for SNAP, but choose not to participate?

This thing seems to be a ripe candidate for abuse.

[Jer]

And so the Californication begins...







Wait, I meant continues.

[GilpinGuy]

We all know this is just another way to separate you from your money (aka stealing your labor). Low income housing......fuck that. Any way they can, they'll sell you on how to give your money to the state. And so many buy their shit it's freaking amazing to me. The state lies when it speaks, and everything it has aquired it has stolen. We all know the actual quote.

Now, back to Dancing with the Stars and what really matters.

[Ronin13]

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...

Exactly! Look at any housing project- they treat that place like crap. Why? They have no financial interest or investment into it, so who cares, right?

Honest question:

Just how is this monitored at the store level? Is it Honor System?
If anyone has actual knowledge/experience in this area, I would be curious to know.

I would assume it is a standard charge that requires a manual override? Maybe SNAP card will automatically override it? Will a person with a SNAP card that may be paying by other means get the manual override (the bill only requires eligibility for SNAP). What if I technically qualify for SNAP, but choose not to participate?

This thing seems to be a ripe candidate for abuse.

I'm curious how this would work too... Seems like self-checkout would make it impossible to enforce.