Suggestions for Alternative to Woodstock’s Bag Tax

From commenter “Bred Winner:”

Catalina is correct. [See Catalina Lauf Rips Woodstock’s New Bag Tax.]

Bag tax for using clean and fresh new bags provided by a store is ridiculous.

What instead is needed are new laws and regulations which most all Democrats and liberals absolutely would love to impose.

They ARE about more laws, regulations and red tape.

Woodstock City Council and Mayor wrong by instituting bag ordinance. They should have instead created a law that would charge every customer bringing in their “reusable” bags.

Each bag brought to a store that sells food would cost $2.00.

As example, a customer bringing in 2 bags would be charged $4.00 by the checkout clerk.

In addition, the law would require that bagging clerks would spray and wipe down the checkout conveyor belt and bagging area along with all of the shopping cart.

The law would also require that each checkout lane have a properly marked trash container for the paper towels that were used for the wipedown.

Also, those persons bringing in reusable bags would be barred from using the self-checkout lanes.

In addition, every person who wants to use reusable bags in Woodstock would need to get a yearly license from the city.

The license fee would be $25 and would cover the cost of a part-time city inspector who would make random visits to stores selling food and would check that clerks are wiping down carts and bagging areas.

The inspector would be authorized to ask persons using reusable bags for their “Reusable Bag License”.

Those without a license would be given a ticket and fined. Those persons with reusable bags attempting to use the self checkout lanes would be given a ticket and fined.


Comments

Suggestions for Alternative to Woodstock’s Bag Tax — 9 Comments

  1. Assuming this is an attempt at satire.

    But politics aside, it’s really, really awful. H

    umor is definitely not your bag, reusable or otherwise.

  2. Easier and cheaper, don’t shop in Woodstock.

    So, I pay more to shop AND pay more again to pay the food stamp population’s fees?

    And this is so I can eat?

  3. Microbiologically, scarier places are meat and produce counters.

    Look really carefully under the produce.

    Look at the bottom edges and sides of the produce and meat areas.

    How often are these emptied and sanitized?

    What good does that even do, when the next load comes in from unsanitized trucks, picked, packed and loaded by people in fields and barns?

    Then you go to breakfast.

    The diner server wipes off your table with a cloth used all morning for wiping tables.

    Then she sets your table, touching all your utensils and plates with the unwashed hands that just handled the table rag.

    I realize your post is parody.

    But really, grocery bags are not your biggest source of bacteria and virus contamination.

    We use about 100 billion plastic grocery bags per year.

    You can look up the amount of oil used to make them.

    They are recycled and downcycled, but that is the very few that do not just get thrown “away,” which is a funny way of saying it.

    Where is that “away”?

  4. Looks like a tight race for which City Council in McHenry County has the most inept and incompetent jackalope’s in my thoughts.

    Is it Woodstock or Crystal Lake?

  5. Of course I will not bother to read this piece of garbage posted by my sunshine republikkklan Political Science and Sociology professor; just knowing this imbecile is advancing in the sunshine journalist wannabe ladder is satisfying enough. Keep the entertainment coming folks! Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, 305 days, tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww…

  6. So it’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

    Fix the roads with the .3 gallon tax first.

  7. Brian Sager is a degenerate, so typical of Illinois officials. Ask Lightfoot, Madrigan, Geo. Ryan and Reick.

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