Stopping Another Scheme: City Council’s ‘Bag Tax’
I don’t see how charging consumers five cents per plastic bag would save the environment (“State halts ‘bag tax,’ ” Feb. 8).
All this tax would do is take money out of somebody’s pocket.
If plastic grocery bags were reusable, the tax may have some merit. However, most rip at some point before you even get home, rendering them useless.
If the city wants to charge people for using plastic bags, it should at least make the bags refundable in a deposit, like the city does with bottles and cans. John Clabough Pine Bush
We need a bag fee in New York City, lest we continue to have bags on our streets, beaches and trees.
State Sen. Simcha Felder seems more interested in protecting the plastic-bag manufacturers and those too lazy to bring their own bag to the supermarket rather than the interests of the city and the environment. Unfortunately, our state Legislature seems to have nothing better to do than to usurp the city’s authority and force us to choke on plastic bags.
I hope Gov. Cuomo will step in and stop the Legislature from its dirty overreach into the city’s governance. Bag fees work — that’s why so many cities around the world have them. Murray Lantner Brooklyn
As a business owner in the city, I’m always flabbergasted at new regulations that disrupt us from doing business.
The bag tax is another joke. As New York continues trying to follow California’s ban on plastic bags, I couldn’t help but wonder, is California going to ban the little plastic bags the legalized weed comes in? Matt Walters Syosset
If this bag tax is implemented, consumers would have to pay two nickels to double-bag or risk having the bag rip open on their way back from the store.
I’m lucky. I drive to the market and can put my goods directly from cart to trunk. Of course, I’ll demand a “paid” sticker on each item so no one thinks I stole anything. Oops, I might have just given the City Council another way to charge us a nickel. Joe DellaCamera Staten Island