afransen
Senior Member
Then why were people already reducing their plastic bag use before the Tariff? Was it retroactively applied?
A major retailer did a study that analysed methods of reducing plastic bag use, from sign/poster/advertising campaigns, to incentives at checkout (like the points system), to offering bag recycling in store. None of these methods were particularly effective. The only technique that worked, short of banning bags, is charging a nominal fee for bags. It's not even the money, which would represent only a tiny percentage of the spend at most stores. It is just a subtle reminder, and a change from having to opt out of bags to having to opt in. And they have real, empirical analysis to back this up. You aren't going to win this argument.
*shrug* I hardly see how resisting punitive taxation is dated, but whatever floats your junk.
Is this all because you can't actually picture yourself weighing the pros and cons of your lifestyle choices and require the government to enact legislation to remind of you of what's right and wrong? You would argue that commerce isn't pervasive in modern society? You would argue that this isn't social control - or at least social conditioning?
No, you wouldn't argue any of those things - you just want to argue 'cause it's me. Lame. Transparent and lame.
No one's stopping you from using bags. You're just going to pay for them. Cry me a river.
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