Bag Story

 I spent a few minutes this AM reading over this California story.

A bag tax was implemented and they figured that this would cure the ills of people (they did the same thing here in Germany).

So the success story?  From what the state figures....plastic bag use went up by 30-percent.

I can say from a German prospective....two curious things happened to make this less-plastic agenda fail.

First, the tax was aimed at thin-plastic bags...so grocery store went to a heavy-grade plastic to sell people on the idea of re-use.  The heavy-grade bag...isn't taxed, but folks still throw them away at the end.

Second, folks eventually got smart and went to Ebay and Amazon....to buy bulk box form plastic bags.  They will walk into a shop with five or six bags....their own purchase....avoiding the tax and agenda entirely.

In a way, it's kinda funny how problems were going to be fixed, and just got you deeper into a mess.