{"id":3248,"date":"2010-07-09T07:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2011-07-31T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T22:41:40","slug":"nanny-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=3248","title":{"rendered":"Nanny Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No surprise that California is the source of this Nanny State story.\u00a0 AB 1998 would ban plastic single use bags from grocery stores and make the markets charge customers for paper bags if they forgot their reusable bags.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2010\/06\/28\/california_plastic_bag_ban_approved.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>You can read a lot more about it here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the Nanny State mentality on Hyper-drive.\u00a0 It is bad enough to ban plastic bags but to implement a charge for paper is the state playing favorites in a battle that should be fought in the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few facts that sensible people could use to defeat the plastic bag ban:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reusable bags are unhygienic.\u00a0 What was spilled in them before you put them on the checkout conveyor.\u00a0 You wouldn&#8217;t reuse ziplock bags<\/li>\n<li>Charging for papers bags is a tax on the convenience shopper.\u00a0 It will unfairly impact the poor who tend to be less organized.<\/li>\n<li>What will we use to pick up dog poop and scoop cat litter if there are no more plastic bags?<\/li>\n<li>The bags that consumers use represent less than 10% of the total packaging that end up in landfills.\u00a0 The rest is boxes, cartons and plastic liners etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note to Nanny State Legislators;<strong> &#8220;Government is a blunt instrument.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t use it to micromanage people behavior.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No surprise that California is the source of this Nanny State story.\u00a0 AB 1998 would ban plastic single use bags from grocery stores and make the markets charge customers for paper bags if they forgot their reusable bags.\u00a0 You can read a lot more about it here This is the Nanny State mentality on Hyper-drive.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64,11,5],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanny-state","category-politics","category-simon-says","tag-nanny-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-Qo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}