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Colorado lawmaker proposes 25 cent plastic bag tax
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:06 pm
to pay for housing
The bill, if passed, would refer a measure onto the ballot to ask Colorado voters to approve a tax on plastic bags from the supermarket. The tax would be a quarter, the same amount whether the customer at the checkout counter uses one bag or several. The proceeds would go to grants and loans to local governments and building contractors to build or retain affordable housing in Colorado.
The bill, if passed, would refer a measure onto the ballot to ask Colorado voters to approve a tax on plastic bags from the supermarket. The tax would be a quarter, the same amount whether the customer at the checkout counter uses one bag or several. The proceeds would go to grants and loans to local governments and building contractors to build or retain affordable housing in Colorado.
This post was edited on 1/17/18 at 3:08 pm
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Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:09 pm to thebigmuffaletta
So what happens when people stop using plastic bags?
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:09 pm to thebigmuffaletta
Cali already does this its 10cents a bag
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:09 pm to thebigmuffaletta
why don't they just build hobo camps out of the bags?
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:09 pm to thebigmuffaletta
Colorado loves some taxes, I’m bouncing up to Wyoming soon to escape the Californication of this state.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:11 pm to thebigmuffaletta
The timber industry sure is sneaky these days 
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:12 pm to thebigmuffaletta
I use the heck out of plastic bags. It troubles me the extent that they clutter the world with their presence, but I like them. I reuse about 50% of them.
I don’t like connecting the bag tax to affordable housing. It should be used for waste conservation measures. Otherwise, I’m okay with it.
I don’t like connecting the bag tax to affordable housing. It should be used for waste conservation measures. Otherwise, I’m okay with it.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:12 pm to thebigmuffaletta
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The tax would be a quarter, the same amount whether the customer at the checkout counter uses one bag or several.
Side effect: "If I am PAYING the same amount...I want each item in its own bag" - MORE plastic bags are used
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The proceeds would go to grants and loans to local governments and building contractors to build or retain affordable housing in Colorado.
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“No matter where I go or who I talk to, the sky-high cost of housing is the number one concern that I hear,” Rosenthal said in a statement.
Yep...Gov subsidizing of a thing will surely DECREASE the price of the thing...right?
frick that, frick them
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:13 pm to thebigmuffaletta
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The proceeds would go to grants and loans to local governments and building contractors to build or retain affordable housing in Colorado.
23 cents out of every quarter would be wasted and never make it to its intended use. They’ll be asking for another 25 cent raise in less than a decade.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:13 pm to thebigmuffaletta
If it was used to pay for roadside litter removal, I would be okay with it. Good way to help get healthy deadbeats off of welfare.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:30 pm to thebigmuffaletta
All those dope smokers need a cheap, subsidized place to live now ... so, the working non-cheeches need to fork out.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:45 pm to thebigmuffaletta
So if Coloradans want it, they'll have it. If not, they won't.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:46 pm to thebigmuffaletta
I mean, if you’re gonna do it, use that money to combat pine beetle kill which is ravaging the national forests. Affordable housing from the government is always a fail.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:47 pm to thebigmuffaletta
My county in MD has been doing this for a couple of years. Total BS tax of 5 cent per bag. DC does it also. $$ go to environmental things. The sheep nod their heads in approval. Yet another addictive tax that they will never be able to do without.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:05 pm to thebigmuffaletta
Fancy. Government finding another way to steal from the public via virtue signaling.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:11 pm to thebigmuffaletta
just charge an extra $1 on each bag of weed
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:13 pm to thebigmuffaletta
Ridiculous... housing prices here are going through the roof. If you can't afford to live here, you need to move out. I'm seriously contemplating selling my home, taking the equity, and buying a house back down in the South to escape this place. Those leftists from the west coast have invaded and brought their failing ideology with them.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:18 pm to thebigmuffaletta
Most of California already has that.
.20 a plastic or paper bag.
You have to carry your own to the store like the Europeans.
.20 a plastic or paper bag.
You have to carry your own to the store like the Europeans.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 5:51 pm to thebigmuffaletta
Does someone in his family own a paper bag company?
Posted on 1/17/18 at 6:36 pm to thebigmuffaletta
Didn't these assholes cause the move away from paper a long time ago?
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