20 cents per bag!
One thing you can count on every January is for Democrats to propose more ways to get money from you.
Del. Joe Morrissey thinks your trip to the grocery store should cost a little more thanks to his proposed increased taxation.
He’s got a problem with plastic bags, and thinks a plastic bag tax is just what Virginia needs. He doesn’t like plastic bags, and last year tried to have them banned.
Hey, Joe….what about trees???
If we all go back to paper bags, we’re just going to encourage cutting down more trees and harming the environment, right? Surely if your goal is a better environment, you’ll want people to stop using paper bags, too.
Someone should offer a “save the trees” amendment to add paper bags to Morrissey’s tax scheme.
Of course, it’s not just groceries getting this new bag tax. It’s every retail store. More taxes, more government-knows-best. More “do what government says or pay up.”
Morrissey’s nutty ideas like this rarely get a vote even in committee, but this is one that should go to the House floor….just for fun.
His colleagues can join us in bagging it.
