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03/11/10
ANNAPOLIS - 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...
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Bag tax IS a fine on polluters - 2010-03-13 08:03:17
If you don't want to pay the tax then bring your own bags. Nobody is forcing you to pay this tax, it is your choice to pay it or not.
A similar measure has worked very well in Ireland. In China the ruthless communist dictators side-stepped the touchy-feely freedom of choice tax option and banned them outright, saving 1.6 million tons of petroleum since last June.
Apart from regurgitating one the Larry Kudlow Top-5 talking points tax whining argument, playing the poverty card with the hurts-poor-people-I-don't-actually care-about regressive tax argument and the rugged-individualist-trampling-on-my-liberties Rush Limbaugh argument, please enlighten us all as to why you are taking the side of the petroleum industry, who regularly screws us all on gas prices, and explain why MORE plastic bags clogging our waterways is better than LESS plastic bags.
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bags/tax - 2010-03-13 00:21:45
I very seldom get a bag and the clerks look at me like are you sure,if you want to tax /charge someone do it to the @#%*( that wants the bag of chips in a bag or the gallon of milk,yes I did say milk in one comment on this before, the lady needed a bag so the milk did not turn over in the trunk... GUESS SHE IS A BLONDE!!!
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Way too many taxes! - 2010-03-12 19:14:50
This is just another round of the government putting their hands into my pockets again. Fine polluters of the Bay, don't tax us into the poor house.
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Another tax!! - 2010-03-12 15:03:21
So what else can we put a tax on?? Maybe the best way to solve all of our problems is for me to give the government my paycheck every week, let them take what they need and send me what is leftover. Only problem there is that I would not be able to afford gas to get to work.
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