Oh Noooooo - another tax! When will it stop?

This is just another way of the environmentalist trying to control our lives. First it was pressure to ban paper to save the trees. Then it was use biodegradable plastic, except the environmental rules rules required that landfills be covered in an air tight water tight manner. So much for biodegradable. Now they want us to pay for the privilege of using the bags! Give me a break.

Looks like I will be using paper from now on. I am not sure what they are going to do with the surplus of plastic bags they already have. Is this just for the grocery store because many retail and other shops use plastic bags of some variety as well. In a time of recession I thought adding new taxes was the wrong thing to do. But what do I know, I am not a politician thank goodness.

they already have this in the city of toronto (canada) and it is just as easy to roll up a cotton bag and keep it in your purse in my opinion. (they add an extra 5 cents per bag).

I think it's okay. There are many nice and cute environmentally-friendly bags anyway. Sometimes, I don't even want to take plastic anymore if the thing I'm buying fits in my bag. I don't know how we'll be taxed for using plastic though. I know in some groceries they charge a few extra cents for plastic bags to encourage shoppers to bring their own bag.

You know ClassyCat I see where you are coming from but the trash is getting to be too much. We as a people need to work together to help the enviroment so it will be here later. I like paper better but right now I am without a car so I need to use plastic. If I had a car I would have no problem with using paper sacks. I remember when I was young that is all my dad would get from the store, nothing else, I feel now that I look back at it to me I feel he was trying to help by doing that. I never looked at it that way until now, he is gone but I should start doing that now myself. I live in Ohio and I have not heard of being taxed for plastic yet, I guess I should be on the look out for this to happen here as well. I know Ohio is a big state and I am sure they will do it here too. Thanks for the heads up and happy mylotting to you.

There will soon be a tax for myLot. And breathing.

Will putting a fee on each plastic bag really keep that much plastic from being put into landfills? Take a tissue box and stuff it full of plastic shopping bags. Stuff it as full as you can and tell me how many it took. Now take a plastic dish detergent bottle, the plastic wrapping from a package of light bulbs and the shrink wrap from any tub toy and stuff them into the same tissue box. See what I mean? We use a lot of shopping bags, yes, but we use a lot of other plastics, too. And another question: If I can't get plastic shopping bags to line my smaller trash cans, I will have to buy them from a company that makes them for that purpose. Excuse me? I don't get the logic...

I know they are not great for the environment and I've tried to get away from using them. I even bought a couple of nice little cloth bags to use. But I always go back to those darn plastic bags. They make great trash can liners and I also use them to throw away the morning coffee grounds. If they go to twenty cents apiece I'll probably stop using them but I would start buying small plastic bags at the dollar store which would be cheaper. But I don't see how that would help the environment. I'd still be throwing out plastic bags.

I use the reusable bags, that is the cloth bags, and the ones made from plastic pop bottles. And I have only one plastic bag left for my garbage. I do not want to buy some stuff just to get a new plastic bag and our Superstore charges one cent for a bag. Last week I had to use one of the Glad Garbage Trash Bags to put in all of my kitchen trash and since there is a lot of snow on the garden, I cannot put the food waste in the compost pile. I wonder if they will charge more for the regular Kitchen Catcher liners. Possibly.

The grocery store my son works at uses biodegradable.

I've always felt that people should be encouraged to use paper bags...and I wish someone would design one with handles! Here in my area of Florida we aren't given the option...it's plastic or nothing. I won't be forced to buy those eco-bags. I have enough empty plastic bags in a box in my pantry to last for years and I'll be more than happy to bring my own!

yea- i know taxs are a must and are meant to help. i am self employed and by the time taxs get done with me i almost have to be on welfare.

we have already bought tote bags here, we live in massachusetts. my parents have bought them because my parents recyle and wanted to help the planet.

i think its ok! eg. on 1st grocery you buy a plastic bag for your item you buy after that the plastic bags you keep them, then a couple days you go again to the grocery you dont need to buy a plastic bags because you have...