Plastic Bag Tax

What a bunch of crap:

Residents of the US capital may have to dig a little deeper into their pockets when they go grocery shopping once the city slaps a five-cent levy on each plastic bag issued at the checkout line.
The measure, which takes effect on January 1, 2010 and is the first such initiative in the United States, seeks to make consumers bear the brunt of clean up costs for the bags which currently are dispensed for free with a customer's purchases.

The "brunt of clean-up costs". Yeah, right.

Here's a quote from yet another idiot in a position of power:

"Our research shows that plastic bags are a major component of the trash in the Anacostia River," said Maureen McGowan, interim director of the city's environment department.

"By taking disposable bags out of production and out of the waste stream, everyone who goes to the store can help keep the waters clean."

You get ten bags of groceries that cost 80 or 90 dollars and you won't even notice fifty cents tacked on for bags. Ten Zip-Lok freezer bags cost three times that, but mentally-challanged interim director Maureen believes that a nickel a bag will take "disposable bags" out of production.

What nonsense. What idiocy. What stupidity. It's just another tax being loaded on our backs by an out-of-control government and the idiots running it.

Remember what Hillary Clinton recently said?

If it moves, we tax it. If it doesn't move, we tax it.

You gotta remember that it's just a few thousand of these state and federal government A-holes that are running us into the ground. Get rid of them, and things will start looking up.