Seattle bag tax approved: unsurprising, but depressing nonetheless
Not a crime in the traditional sense, but still downright criminal:
Well, the City Council, and its president Richard Conlin in particular, should be ashamed of the decision they made today. The only solace a reasonable man can take is knowing how foolish these folks will look when it's three years from now and the "positive impacts" of the tax that so many people are counting on will have proven to be nonexistent.
By the way: there's plenty more research into the ill effects of such a policy at the Northwest Economic Policy Seminar's site Seattle Bag Tax.org, which features information put together by a nonpartisan group of individuals who don't have an agenda beyond offering up the facts and examining the potential outcomes a bag tax could have on our city. The treehuggers rallying behind the tax should take some time to look over the site and see what impacts similar approaches have had in the rest of the world. But of course, I wouldn't expect them to. After all, what good are facts - and there are plenty of them here - when they prove your flimsy argument faulty?
Beginning in January, shoppers must pay 20 cents for each plastic or paper bag they use at grocery, drug and convenience stores in Seattle.The stupidity of people in this supposedly educated city continues to amaze me: so afraid that they'll miss the trendy "going green" bandwagon, local busybodies are willing to put aside all common sense and dictate the shopping habits of those in their community, justifying it with claims that such meddling is acceptable because it's the "right thing to do." The idea that protecting the environment starts and ends with you has been twisted by these individuals: rather than the reasonable approach ("OK, our household will just stop using plastic bags") they're taking an unreasonable one ("We don't like plastic bags in the grocery stores, so we want to make sure anyone who uses them has to pay the price") and have somehow convinced the Seattle City Council to agree with them.
The Seattle City Council this afternoon also passed a ban on foam containers at food-service businesses that also will take effect in January.
Well, the City Council, and its president Richard Conlin in particular, should be ashamed of the decision they made today. The only solace a reasonable man can take is knowing how foolish these folks will look when it's three years from now and the "positive impacts" of the tax that so many people are counting on will have proven to be nonexistent.
By the way: there's plenty more research into the ill effects of such a policy at the Northwest Economic Policy Seminar's site Seattle Bag Tax.org, which features information put together by a nonpartisan group of individuals who don't have an agenda beyond offering up the facts and examining the potential outcomes a bag tax could have on our city. The treehuggers rallying behind the tax should take some time to look over the site and see what impacts similar approaches have had in the rest of the world. But of course, I wouldn't expect them to. After all, what good are facts - and there are plenty of them here - when they prove your flimsy argument faulty?
I couldn't see Dundalk once for disposable bags, there were so many millions of them, it was kind of not Ireland, darn it, we were once too poor to buy anything. Boiling a pig's fuckin head poor.
These days, I went out to buy a BMW, I forgot I already owned one, but in the wrong place, in the other country, what I really wanted was something else, a new value, I just couldn't remember.
I'm head fucked with that mythic quality, I want to be an American and I want to stay a fuckin peasant. I envy the Swedes, they can let go. Who wants to pay 12 bucks for a beer in Stockholm?
Dundalk is really quite cool, this horse didn't come in, it had a peer group prob, and a fella just blattered away at the television with an armalite.
If it is a 9, it's for restaurants, if it is a 5.56, it is for that little speck in the distance, I keep sayin' it, nobody ever listens.
By the way, real crime, Bush just quietly endorsed a gang of pedophiles in Holland. They use to endorse incestuous pedophilia, anyway, George is their sponsor at the United Nations Economic and Social Council,
"In The Netherlands the national gay organization, the COC (Cultureel Ontspannings Centrum, Cultural and Recreational Centre), declared pedophilia to be a gay issue."
http://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/sbn90.htm
That's a pedophile web-site by the way. George Bush is the President of the United Staes of America. Maybe the pedos have an airbase or a torture prison he fuckin needs.
I'll stay a peasant until you get a new Prezzie. I'd eat my own shit before I'd help the COC.
Tazia