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Five-Cent Bag Tax Would Go Towards Cleaning Bay

Southern Maryland Online,

The General Assembly has been reluctant to raise taxes in an election year, but 39 legislators across both chambers are cosponsoring an act that would place a 5-cent tax on disposable carryout bags.

The Chesapeake Bay Restoration Consumer Retail Choice Act would require Maryland businesses to tack the 5-cent fee onto each disposable bag used by a customer.

Businesses stand to receive a penny per bag sold, unless they offer a 5-cent credit to customers who provide reusable bags when checking out. Businesses offering the credit would receive 2 cents for every bag sold. The rest would go to the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund.


Posted by: Sammy on 03/11/10 at 06:45 AM
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  • 1. · Liberal Way, tax it and the problem goes away.
    Just keep taxing anything and everything Marylnd's course to the California bankrupt model.

    Comment by jdman1  on  03/11/10  at  06:48 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 2. · This is one thing Ive been rooting for- many different Countries, and States and Municipalities have used it to combat our plastic bag problems- who hasn't seen the plastic bag trees along the roadway- the seabirds dead from plastic bags and more- its easy to use re-usable bags- heck different organizations give them out free.
    If you go to BJ's you get no bags- you use boxes they have or just load it in your trunk with no bags.
    Why cant we take care of our World with out having to penalize; is more the question. If people cant act responsibly - then lets tax their behavior and fill our coffers.

    formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

    Comment by Barbara  on  03/11/10  at  11:55 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 3. · A five cent credit for costomers who bring their own bag- great
    with the amount of oil it takes to make 14 plastic bags you could drive your car a mile.
    It's easy just bring your own bag.

    Comment by amphibia  on  03/11/10  at  01:08 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 4. · Giant gives credit of .05 cents a bag.
    Remember when Shoppers Food you had to buy the bags?

    formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

    Comment by Barbara  on  03/11/10  at  03:06 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 5. · jdman:

    Ya missing the point on this one, hon.

    It's not a "tax the crap out of everything" approach but a mild motivator to get people to change their behavior. If the primary goal was collecting revenue, we would probably be charged a lot more than 5 cents per bag.

    I agree with you Barbara, it is a shame we have to be penalized before we change the way we do things. Getting people to realize that what they do has direct, indirect, and often negative effects on their environment (the throw-away mentality if you will) is going to take time, energy, and initiatives like this.

    Comment by Land Lubber  on  03/12/10  at  08:00 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 6. · With re: to our societal refusal to change wasteful or damaging habits until forced to do so I am reminded of two quotes from Wendell Berry's essay Faustian Economics:

    The dominant response, in short, is a dogged belief that what we call the American Way of Life will prove somehow indestructible. We will keep on consuming, spending, wasting, and driving, as before, at any cost to anything and everybody but ourselves.


    and

    We seem to have come to a collective delusion of grandeur, insisting that all of us are “free” to be as conspicuously greedy and wasteful as the most corrupt of kings and queens.


    Sadly, Berry is right. It is a very American attitude, this idea that we have a "right" to do damn near anything we please, regardless of how wasteful or destructive it is. You know you've got it just a little too good when the rights you squawk about aren't the right to vote, or the right to peaceably assemble, or the right to practice the religion of your choosing, but the right to consume at whatever level you damn well please.

    Comment by mbillard  on  03/12/10  at  09:09 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 7. · I am glad lots of you 'get it'. Sometimes I think I am alone- but maybe we who are disgusted by the waste and trash are just too quiet about it all.

    formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

    Comment by Barbara  on  03/12/10  at  12:45 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 8. · but the right to consume at whatever level you damn well please.

    The powers-that-be encourage this way of thinking. I hate to sound like a broken record, but, when 70% of economic health is based on how much consumer's spend, who cares about how many plastic trash bags are flyin' through the air or washing up on shores as long as they're totin' a bunch of crap Made in China.

    Comment by seahorse  on  03/12/10  at  01:51 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 9. · Getting people to realize that what they do has direct, indirect, and often negative effects on their environment (the throw-away mentality if you will) is going to take time, energy, and initiatives like this.

    Heh...are we talking about the CrossCountyConnector here? "Some" people never learn or worse yet choose to ignore! tongue laugh

    Comment by seahorse  on  03/12/10  at  01:54 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 10. · If people cant do what is right- becuase it is what is right for our community and our World- then we get the nasty communities we deserve, dont we?

    formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

    Comment by Barbara  on  03/12/10  at  02:01 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 11. · #10, Yep, but just look at the number of old tires, beer bottles, soft drink cans, McDonalds wrappers, stoves, mattresses, and the kitchen sink dumped along roads. It doesn't take many to ugly a place up--just a few lowlifes can trash an area in a fairly short time.

    Comment by seahorse  on  03/12/10  at  02:10 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 12. · Most of the grocery stores take the bags back and recycle. There's usually a big box right near the front door. I find that an easier solution that bringing my own when I shop.

    Comment by shadowdiver  on  03/12/10  at  02:50 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 13. · If you looked into all the global ramifications to plastic bags you would not use them at all.

    I dont expect everyone to study all aspects of plastics from beginnings to end and all its detrimental effects...but plastic is forever- it never disappears.

    I wish people could just believe in what tjose who study it say and in seeing the ugliness would just stop using them- it is so easy to do...instead of finding reasons to still use them.

    formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

    Comment by Barbara  on  03/12/10  at  03:29 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 14. · #12 Not a solution-it takes more energy to recycle that bag than it takes to make a new one altho you are keeping it out the landfill hopefully.

    Turns out it's not so easy to be green.
    in this case reuse is better then reprocessing

    I'm not sure they even recycle those bags.

    Comment by amphibia  on  03/12/10  at  03:34 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 15. · OMG...I think I love you guys....

    Sorry, AHEM, let me pull myself together. The ocean can tell us where a lot of our thrown out stuff goes. If it was a bedtime story, it would be one that would give you nightmares.

    http://www.greatgarbagepatch.org/

    http://science.howstuffworks.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm

    Comment by Land Lubber  on  03/12/10  at  03:45 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 16. · Landlubber- I love you- the Allagita Ocean Institute has been a forrunner in this. I caN'T imagine what it felt like to have first discovered the plastic patch. Anyone want some dvd's about it- I can loan them.

    formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

    Comment by Barbara  on  03/12/10  at  04:35 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 17. · who could have predicted that a nickel bag would come to this?


    (child of the 60/70's)

    Comment by Lee Platt  on  03/12/10  at  06:26 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 18. · hah!

    formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

    Comment by Barbara  on  03/13/10  at  12:28 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
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