"Ireland to double tax on plastic store bags" by Associated Press | September 25, 2009
DUBLIN - Ireland was the first nation to tax plastic bags as a way to stop people from littering the countryside with them.
You don't recycle?
Now the Emerald Isle will double its levy to a punitive 59 cents per bag. The 7-year-old policy has already generated more than $175 million....
Do you feel as if the MSM here is trying to say it's a good idea? I do.
The Department of the Environment announced yesterday that the charge will be doubled to ensure a “sufficient deterrent’’ to shoppers who arrive at checkout counters with no shopping bags of their own.
What about the guys making the bags? Gonna put them out of work?
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Plastic or paper, sir?
Oh, paper, please!
Try getting out of that one, Irishman.
