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By Tomas Jina

Don’t lawmakers have nothing better to do?

Posted 5:16 p.m., April 17, 2008

So if nothing else, we will be taxed for using plastic bags.

Another liberal idea has been blown up into our faces.

When I came to this country, twenty five years ago, comparing to Europe, plastic bags were virtually unknown here; big brown paper bags were popular. Then the Green Movement begun looking for victims; and found it.

It seems as yesterday, when the same hysteria was about not using paper bags, b’cause by using them we were killing our trees. Companies were forced to make them thinner and smaller, (which produced only need for using them double, instead of one.)

But … as long as we feel good about it, two inches of its size must have saved lot of trees who cares. Paper was out, plastic in. We were told it is biodegradable, I remember, and soon every business was forced to use them. Is it a global warming perhaps, what is preventing them from rotting? Or . . . perhaps it was a fraud from day one; you judge.



So only real novelty is this taxing us, (which seems to be trendy between liberals, as both Democratic candidates heavily proposing it,) and in this stupidity, the Seattle is the # 1. They want to tax usage of both, plastic and paper bags as well. (A secret proposal is the tax people for starting their cars; because this is a moment when it pollutes the most . . . but this is not on the official agenda yet.)

Anyway, I can’t wait when, after people begun bringing own shopping bags to stores, someone will come up with another hysteria. Perhaps those are dangerous to our children’s, since the long loops could be slipped over the head of child accidentally, and causing his or her death; for which possibility, there will be need raise a tax to cover the emergency expenses . . . or something stupid like that.

Perhaps we should begun wrapping our shopping into pages of used newspapers, as the shoppers Third World Countries are doing, and then using it cut into small sheets instead of toilet paper. This will save a lot of pollution indeed.

We also could . . . no, I’ll leave it for the next time.