More Life Control in Seattle

Apparently, encouraging customers to bring their own reusable bags to the store was not enough. They didn’t listen. So they are being punished for their recalcitrance.

Seattle has tried this before. In 2008 they slapped these thoughtless consumers with a 20-cent fine for using a plastic bag. That got repealed.

Seattle encouraged recycling, but only 13 percent of the nearly 300 million bags made it back. Punishment was due. Seattle also used 68 million paper bags (or enough to raise $3.4 million in nickel fines – and that number will go up without the plastic alternative.)

But, there is good news if you are “low income”. You don’t have to pay the nickel for a paper bag. Maybe it is considered luggage. But, who wants to go through the low-income qualification in the checkout line. Isn’t there enough humiliation in Seattle now?

Where does this nonsense stop?

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