Taxaholics, Environmental Showboaters and Bagmen

Taxaholics, Environmental Showboaters and Bagmen (Discovery Blog)

I have to add now that the local Seattle Times has backed the new bag tax, at least, on its editorial pages. I was thinking how odd it is that they would take such a position, since every single day their own product arrives on my porch placed inside a plastic bag. Unlike the ones at the grocery check out stand, moreover, these plastic bags have no secondary use. They are inconvenient for garbage cans, packing lunches or picking up dog poop.

And on Sunday the news folks deliver 500,000 of these plastic bags in Western Washington, along with about three inches of printed flyers with ads that instantly go into the trash and, presumably, contribute to global warming. Today, however, the paper contained an Office Depot ad that I actually saved. It was a garbage pail sized paper bag with their ad copy written on it. Very useful. A real 20 cent gift from the Seattle Times.