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Let me try to do this again here, folks, while maintaining my composure. We\u2019re talking about San Francisco charging 17 cents for each grocery bag — and, by the way, it\u2019s not just plastic. It was originally designed to stop the pollution caused by plastic bags, and somebody says, “Well, we\u2019ll go to paper.” They said, “No, we\u2019re going to charge 17 cents for paper bags.” Somebody said, “Why?” and they said, “Well, to be fair.” Honestly. Don\u2019t want to “discriminate” against just plastic, so they\u2019re going to be fair: 17 cents a bag.<\/line> <\/line>“Supermarkets, however, under the proposal could keep up to half of the 17-cents per bag they generate, if they set up city-approved programs such as providing reusable bags to low-income shoppers who use food stamps or setting up in-store bag recycling centers. The rest of the fees would go to the city treasurer. The San Francisco department of the environment came up with the figure of 17 cents by dividing its estimate of what it costs the city and its garbage collection company each year to deal with used grocery bags, divide that, that\u2019s eight and a half million dollars, by the estimated number of plastic and paper bags distributed in San Francisco\u2019s supermarkets each year, which is 50 million.”<\/line> <\/line>Now, it\u2019s an interesting number here. Costs them eight and a half million dollars, 50 million bags. Have you noticed that this? It\u2019s the San Francisco Commission on the Environment that is going to adopt this resolution. Now, as I told you yesterday, “If you want to find out why some proposal which on the surface seems idiotic is being supported: Follow the money.” In this case, 17 cents is going to save $8-1\/2 million in trash collection fees, they think, and the money goes to the city treasurer. What you have here, folks, is a good old-fashioned tax increase, but not even liberals in San Francisco have the ability to be honest with the people there. So what they\u2019ve done is garnered support by telling them it\u2019s an environmental issue, and, of course, big libs and the environmental wackos, these people, they\u2019re one and the same.<\/line><\/p>\n

So if you tell the environmental wacko population of San Francisco, “Yeah, we\u2019re going to raise the fee on bags. We\u2019re going to charge a fee, 17 cents to save the environment,” Oh, well, that\u2019s great. We\u2019ll support that! But if you said, “Nope, we want to save eight and a half million dollars. We want the money to go to the city treasury and so forth,” if you don\u2019t put the environmental component in there this thing wouldn\u2019t have probably a ghost of a chance. So once again it\u2019s libs lying to libs in order to get a tax increase done. Pure and simple. It\u2019s a tax increase disguised as an environmental improvement program. “The environmental department has done no research to determine whether 17 cents is enough or too much or not enough to change the average San Franciscan\u2019s bag behavior.” They just arbitrarily came up with this number by doing this division of eight and a half million dollars by 50 million bags equals 17 cents a bag so that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna be charging. <\/line> <\/line>What if it\u2019s not going to be enough? Well, you know it\u2019s not going to be enough because the government is in charge! So it won\u2019t be enough. The government will come back and say, “The environment\u2019s still too dirty after doing this we need to charge even more.” This is not going to affect people\u2019s behavior what else we going to do if every supermarket charges every customer 17 cents a bag where else you gonna go? This is such poppycock.<\/line> <\/line>And then “the San Francisco environment department notes that six nations — Australia, Bangladesh, Italy, South Africa, Taiwan and Ireland — levy taxes or have enacted bans on plastic shopping bags. [It says that] In Ireland plastic bag usage dropped 90% in the first year after that nation imposed a fee of 15 cents per bag.” What they don\u2019t tell you is they didn\u2019t tax paper bags! So of course you got a paper bag choice or a plastic bag choice, that cost you 17 cents or 15 cents, what are you going to do? You\u2019re going to use the paper. Of course it\u2019s going to go down 90%. “Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has expressed concerns the bag fee could be regressive, hitting lower income consumers hardest.”<\/line> <\/line>Oh, really? So the poor will be hardest hit by this. What does that matter? This is to clean up the environment. We can\u2019t have any concerns for the poor when it comes to cleaning up the environment. (interruption) I know the stores chose plastic. (interruption) Well, they didn\u2019t choose them, they were forced to go to plastic because the tree lovers got mad at all the trees being cut down to make paper bags. And so that was an environmental consideration. Environmentalists said, “We have to save the trees so we\u2019re going to go to plastic.” I am surprised they didn\u2019t go after plastic because it\u2019s a derivative of oil. They\u2019ll come up with that next once they figure this out.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me try to do this again here, folks, while maintaining my composure. We\u2019re talking about San Francisco charging 17 cents for each grocery bag — and, by the way, it\u2019s not just plastic. 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