Bags, Bags, Everywhere, and Not an Ounce of Sense

I heard a blurb on the radio how some Rockland politician was holding a hearing on plastic bags. At first, I thought that this was to ban them, which actually was a hearing that this moron held last year, and this one was to impose ANOTHER fee on Rockland residents in the amount of twenty-five cents a bag. ( See the article here)



I live in Rockland, and I have to deal with the awful roads, terrible services, overcrowding because the local pols can't seem to ever say no, for whatever reason, and insane traffic because no one thought that if you add 10,000 families to the existing infrastructure without widening a single road, this might cause traffic.



Even more ridiculous is the the fact that for all the deficiencies in the services that we get or don't get in the county, we still have one of the highest Sales Tax rates, probably in the country, and if the voters have the audacity to say enough, and not approve some other ridiculous hike, they punish the citizens who are ALREADY paying by cutting services. ( Here I am talking about the reign of terror at the Finkelstein Public Library, but more on that at a later time.)

What this excuse for a human has proposed is a 25 cent tax on BOTH plastic AND paper bags, because of the facts that they fill up the landfills, even though paper has generally been deemed to be eco-friendly and bio-degradable. So that leads me to conclude a few things about this person, who had been entrusted with our environmental policy making.


Either :

1) She is a disingenuous politician who is trying to grandstand on one of the hot-button issues of the day, for personal and political gain.

or

2) She is a tree-hugging wacko, and does not care about the fact that people in the county are hurting financially, but is only concerned about the environment, to the absolute detriment of people.

or

3) She is a tax and spend liberal, looking to sneak another tax onto the poor Rockland constituency.



Whether you pick 1, 2 0r 3, it isn't good. I happened to hear about it ( again, listening with just half an ear) in passing on the news, and even then, had to look for the story afterwards. We need to be more vigilant about allowing these people to carry our their evil plans, dip into our pockets, or even to serve in office.

Otherwise they will legislate that the trees can vote, and there are even more of them than the ultra-orthodox.