Leftist Nannyism continues in the People's Republic of New York

[Twilight Hue]

What revenue? Stores get a side effect of not having to buy so many bags and the state gets a small bit of revenue from the few people who buy bags at the store.
Would legalized and taxed cannabis be an issue because it brings in massive heaps of revenue?

Small? Lol
19.54 million people from last year's census in the People's Republic of New York State.

One bag, just one bag per person at the insignificant and piddly amount of $0.05 translates to a cool $977,000 for Chairman Cuomo's political piggy bank.

Of course we will need more than one bag , so double even quadruple that figure if even more. And that's just for one week of groceries.

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So if I bring my own bags, would I in turn get a discount as an incentive?

The People's Republic of New York would never hear of that. The room would erupt with laughter.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Sure liberals care more for the environment than they do the economy but this was not a liberal only ideal.

Show me a republican one if you are able to.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Small? Lol
19.54 million people from last year's census in the People's Republic of New York State.

One bag, just one bag per person at the insignificant and piddly amount of $0.05 translates to a cool $977,000 for Chairman Cuomo's political piggy bank.

Of course we will need more than one bag , so double even quadruple that figure if even more. And that's just for one week of groceries.

If California is an indication, most people will be bringing their own bags.

Show me a republican one if you are able to.

He did.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

So if I bring my own bags, would I in turn get a discount as an incentive?

You need an incentive to act responsibly and accordingly?

 

[Glaurung]

I live in Australia and plastic bags have been a thing of the past for me for about a year now. All the major grocery stores sell reusable bags for less than a dollar each. Just keep a bunch in your boot/trunk and you're good to go. Whining about a plastic bag phase out is absurd.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I live in Australia and plastic bags have been a thing of the past for me for about a year now. All the major grocery stores sell reusable bags for less than a dollar each. Just keep a bunch in your boot/trunk and you're good to go. Whining about a plastic bag phase out is absurd.

I don't really get the complaining. Plastic bags are so wasteful and such an ugly eyesore when they become litter, and bringing your own bag isn't that hard. And you get comfort in the fact knowing it wont rip or slice open (generally speaking), unlike plastic bags. You don't have to collect them and take them to a recycling center because you have more than you can use for anything you'd use them for. And it's just not at all a hassle.

 

[Cooky]

Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York State

I seem to remember plastic bags coming on the scene in the day because of the destruction of forests and the habitation of animals buy liberal environmentalists and tree hugging sympathizers. All those hippie days.......

Of course in the People's Republic of New York, it's fine to return to paper bags for "ahem" a $0.05 paper bag fee. Which of course I'm sure we'll go to the 'appropriate' end-user of said fees.

Of course I'll have to dig out my soiled and dirty grocery bag that was laying under that pile of moldy rags in the corner of my garage all these years.

I can't wait to see my fellow comrades at the grocery store to see who wins the most disgusting bag contest while waiting in the breadline as the spores and viruses from everyone's filthy bags permeate the grocery store air and make everybody sick and contaminate the food.

California did it last year. Now for 10 cents you can buy a thicker "reusable" plastic bag... But I just treat them the same as the old thin plastic bags.

 

[Cooky]

I live in Australia and plastic bags have been a thing of the past for me for about a year now. All the major grocery stores sell reusable bags for less than a dollar each. Just keep a bunch in your boot/trunk and you're good to go. Whining about a plastic bag phase out is absurd.

I just use them as throwaway bags just like nothing ever happened.

 

[Glaurung]

I don't really get the complaining. Plastic bags are so wasteful and such an ugly eyesore when they become litter, and bringing your own bag isn't that hard. And you get comfort in the fact knowing it wont rip or slice open (generally speaking), unlike plastic bags. You don't have to collect them and take them to a recycling center because you have more than you can use for anything you'd use them for. And it's just not at all a hassle.

It's no big deal at all. Despite the initial complaints, people learnt to adjust very quickly.

There is the marginal inconvenience of forgetting your bags, which is why I always keep some in my car boot. And even still, the basic reusable bag ranges from fifty to seventy cents in price. I fully support the new system. The old bags were just wasteful landfill.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It's no big deal at all. Despite the initial complaints, people learnt to adjust very quickly.

There is the marginal inconvenience of forgetting your bags, which is why I always keep some in my car boot. And even still, the basic reusable bag ranges from fifty to seventy cents in price. I fully support the new system. The old bags were just wasteful landfill.

Indeed. After moving to California, I've had a hard time not seeing those bags as anything other than wasteful. It was a bit of a thingy when I first moved here, but it was harder for me to get used to actually getting breaks at work (break policies in Indiana are way more stingy). Actually, I think of all the big changes, the bags were the easiest and quickest to adopt to (and not seeing them doesn't beat in feelings of "not in Kansas anymore" when I feel homesick the way hearing Spanish can).

 

[suncowiam]

Show me a republican one if you are able to.

Seriously? Your response is that I have to physically show you a republican ?

It wasn't enough that I showed you actual data on which counties followed with this practice. Which, in fact, showed conservative states and counties. You couldn't make the leap that Republicans can also favor this?

Again, probably this isn't about socialism as you so ignorantly claimed in your OP. It's about a good practice to reuse your bags for the sake of the environment.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Again, probably this isn't about socialism as you so ignorantly claimed in your OP. It's about a good practice to reuse your bags for the sake of the environment.

IDK? Maybe we're expected to share our bags or something like how people at Aldi tend to essentially share and exchange quarters? Is it my bag is your bag and if I end up not having enough you'll have to give me one of yours? This environmentally friendly practice is obviously not at all in anyway about the environment but all about socialism, so it must be because they are our bags and since possession is 9/10ths of the law it's redistribution as the things we put in our bag become ours once they are in our bag.

 

[Augustus]

I can't wait to see my fellow comrades at the grocery store to see who wins the most disgusting bag contest while waiting in the breadline as the spores and viruses from everyone's filthy bags permeate the grocery store air and make everybody sick and contaminate the food.

You are allowed clean ones you know, and shops sell them for $1ish and they last for years.

Recent scientific breakthroughs have also demonstrated that dirt can be removed from objects if you immerse them in a solution comprising soap and water. Perhaps you believe that this is just George Soros funded globalist propaganda though.

They funny thing is you always complain about lefties whining and getting into a tizzy due to their TDS, yet reducing the unnecessary environmental damage caused by millions of plastic bags getting into rivers, seas, forests, etc. is some form of communist conspiracy about to usher in the Black Death.

If a Democrat helped an old lady to cross the road, you'd find a reason to whine about how this was simply virtue signalling while in reality they wanted to send her before a Nazi death panel of the kind they use in universal European healthcare systems

 

[Glaurung]

The fact that such an obvious and common sense change would be couched in terms of left and right is itself silly. It is not leftist to be concerned about the tons of needless plastic choking the world's waterways and oceans. It is not leftist to implement laws and incentives to push people towards better patterns. (You can't dump your chemical waste anywhere you want either). What freedom is being taken away from you exactly OP? The freedom to litter?

We live in societies. And as societies we have a collective responsibility not only to each other but to our environment as well. I don't want to bequeath a humid, garbage tip of a planet to future generations because "muh... freedom". You don't live in an isolated, individualist bubble where your actions and habits have no effect on others. Phasing out a needless source of non-biodegradable, environmentally damaging rubbish is not some socialist plot to micro-manage your life.

 

[Altfish]

Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York State

I seem to remember plastic bags coming on the scene in the day because of the destruction of forests and the habitation of animals buy liberal environmentalists and tree hugging sympathizers. All those hippie days.......

Of course in the People's Republic of New York, it's fine to return to paper bags for "ahem" a $0.05 paper bag fee. Which of course I'm sure we'll go to the 'appropriate' end-user of said fees.

Of course I'll have to dig out my soiled and dirty grocery bag that was laying under that pile of moldy rags in the corner of my garage all these years.

I can't wait to see my fellow comrades at the grocery store to see who wins the most disgusting bag contest while waiting in the breadline as the spores and viruses from everyone's filthy bags permeate the grocery store air and make everybody sick and contaminate the food.

The UK brought in chargeable plastic bags a few years back; it works great. In my car, I now carry a couple of plastic bags; my work case has a plastic bag in it. I go to buy my lunch pre-armed with a plastic bag.
My plastic bag usage has dropped by 95%

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Recent scientific breakthroughs have also demonstrated that dirt can be removed from objects if you immerse them in a solution comprising soap and water.

You heard that FAKE news from lying CNN and witch hunting MSNBC! Water will make you melt and soap is the path to Communism!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

My plastic bag usage has dropped by 95%

Commy!

 

[sooda]

It's not about the environment or some other noble-sounding cause. It has everything to do with exercising more control and power coupled with the raising of state 'revenue'.

It's entirely the socialist left who's responsible btw, so yes, its political.

LOLOL.. You'll survive.

 

[Augustus]

You heard that FAKE news from lying CNN and witch hunting MSNBC! Water will make you melt and soap is the path to Communism!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I warn you! If you're the only one who hasn't got crap all over you I'll report your pinko Commy arse!