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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]
This is all nonsense. I'm a DC resident (where there is also a bag tax) and your reasoning is dense. If you don't want meat touching your reusable bag, you walk over to the produce department, get a plastic produce bag, then walk over to the meat and wrap it up. Simple, done. No charge.

People who whine about the bag tax come across as selfish morons.[/quote]
+1  I will add that if you care about a "clean" environment, contamination in your food, etc..  you shouldn't want a R leader, certainly not Trump.  PP wants to make sure that raw meat isn't contaminating his other food, but doesn't care that coal mine run off is contaminating other people's drinking supply, or that Pruitt allowed a pesticide that causes neurological disorders to be used in our food supply.  PP probably only buys organic produce.

Selfish moron, indeed.[/quote]

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