"squirltop" wrote in message
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Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
Although I live just outside Seattle, the bag tax issue caught my
attention.

For years, since plastic grocery bags became available, I've used them
(after hauling groceries home in them) as garbage can liners. They work
much better than paper grocery bags (if one must throw out something wet
and sloppy) and most of them are biodegradable (where the plastic trash
bags are not). As a result, I haven't bought plastic trash bags for
years. And that's not just me, but quite a few people I know do the
same.

So, I got thinking: If I had to pay a bag tax, and was eventually
persuaded to bring my own reusable grocery bags, I'd have to start
buying trash bags again. So, I got to wondering: Who stands to gain if
the public shifts from reusing grocery bags to buying trash can liners?

Where do companies like Glad stand on this issue?

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Paul Hovnanian
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The Moonbat Libs tried to pass the "bag tax" here in Maine last year to get
folks to stop using them as well but due to public outcry it was
dropped...They get re-used for EVERYTHING...Couldn't be more green...LOL

As a side note the tax was more about getting for funding for Maine's FAILED
publicly funded healthcare (Dirigo) then it was about being green...FWIW....