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 - No more bag tax in VA (MoCo charges 5 cents per plastic bag)
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Seriously? You still use plastic bags, and enough of them that the amount of money in bag taxes feels worth commenting on?  Just invest $10 or less in some canvas bags and stop messing up the environment for the rest of us, for goodness sakes.  This should really not be an issue.[/quote]

NP, I rented in MoCo and then bought in NoVA.  The bag tax was a factor, as were MoCo/MD's higher taxes.  Reusable bags are gross; do you do wash them every time you transport meat?  And while I would have been willing to pay 5 cents/bag for plastic bags, the supermarkets by my rental didn't even put them out, so I'd have to go to the one non-self checkout line or try to flag down a worker to get them.  Also, shenanigans like asking me before the groceries were bagged how many I wanted.

I wish policymakers would weigh whatever marginal benefit to the environment is realized by banning bags in a few leftist enclaves versus the fact that plastic bags are really useful.  [/quote]

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