It’s a great idea…it keeps the crap out of the water and away from marine life.

I haven’t followed Charlie very close so I’m not sure what his stance is on most issues. The real law that affects us all seems to be taking place in DC.

“crist or his cabinet don’t have what they are doing they have proved that over and over!!!!!!!!! “

What?  Are you speaking English, Fattboy?

This is some of governor crist garbage for more money for them to wasted!!!!!!! he needs to climb back into his tanning bed and stay there til his term is over crist or his cabinet don’t have what they are doing they have proved that over and over!!!!!!!!!

Well Richard aren’t you a bundle of joy. I don’t know if your still in the Navy or if your retired, but I would think being a military man you might show a little more respect than to slander someone the way you did Congressman Boyd.
I may not agree with every decision he makes, but I agree with enough of them to know he is the guy I will be voting for. As long as he keeps fighting for my job, I’ll keep fighting for his.

Actually, burndog brought his name up and I’m just stating how low a lifeform I think Boyd is.  I’d suggest him jumping off the high end of the Hathaway bridge but that would be water pollution but at least no shark would bother him…professional courtesy and all, you know.  After the way he dodged the town hall metting he isn’t worth the air he’s wasting breathing.  But, he’ll get re-elected by the same bunch that never look at anything past the party he’s in.  The best we can hope for is a heart attack, maybe.

The days of choice at the check-out counter may soon be over. State environmental officials have proposed a ban on bags.
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Ok I read that over and over I still don’t see where it says Allen Boyd proposed anything, hell I didn’t even see his name mentioned in the article. So why the slaughter job on Allen Boyd??

I thought there was already a tax on litter, but isn’t it called a FINE!! If people are littering what does plastic or paper bags have to do with it??
They can litter with bottles, hamburger wrapers, beer cans or any other trash. If people are littering then FINE them, don’t tax everyone for the sins of a few.

Besides if this tax is ever passed you can bet it’ll be just like postal stamps, the price will keep going up and up. In 5 years you’ll be paying .25 cents a bag.

I’m not in favor of this tax, but I’m not going to throw Allen Boyd under the bus, he has proven himself to me by fighting for jobs in Bay county.

He can kick back on his ranch that Pelosi paid with our tax money! The man (crook) has no worries.

and im sure all you have gotten back is a generic email?i know thats all i get back when i email him and complain about his puppetry, hope he has a backup plan for employment?? cuz hes gonna be out next election!!

Hey, burndog, if he’s too chicken——to show up
at a townhall meeting, what makes you think he reads, or cares about, e-mails?  He knows the same brain-dead idiots will vote for him again that always do so he’s assured of going back into office again.  I have no idea what he thinks he’s accomplishing by running so early.  He’s already showed that bright YELLOW stripe down the middle of his back and who he is answering to these days…and it’s not Florida voters!

Actually, I have sent several e-mails to Mr. Boyd’s office, and griped in all of them.

hey burndog,

“keep sitting on your hands people and do something besides gripe on a local computer forum.”

Isn’t that what you are doing? hahahahah

Coming soon, Soda tax, beer tax, keep sitting on your hands people and do something besides gripe on a local computer forum. Yall’ have heard of that MORON Allen Boyd, right?

what! i would carry things to my car one-by-one before i paid 10 cents a BAG!  I reuse all those bags!

Fine the litters!  Not just for bags but for all their dirty trash.

I also reuse the plastic bags from the stores.  Hey Florida, how about a recycling program?  Aren’t we getting taxed enough?

wifeandmom, I have another question.  Like you, I use these bags for trash can liners, etc. and have a thrift store I donate the excess to so they can save money on overhead costs.  Recycling takes many forms and should be used.  Tallahassee is abviously too dumb to think of things like this.  What are they going to do with all of the commercial trash bags like Hefty, etc., that we’d have to buy to replace the ones we now use?  Tax them, too?  There are some things that EPA should get their hands slapped for even getting involved with.  Start slapping these litterers with some meaningful fines and leave the rest of us alone!  Even better, fine them then make them do highway cleanup duty for a month or so.  They’d soon get the message.  If not, then jail time for second offenses should.

Truth or Consequences, you just about said it all.  Tallahassee is NOT the smartest egg in the basket.  They know how to give away our hard earned tax money on frivilous things but haven’t a clue on how to save it.  Several years back when His Majesty Graham bowed to special interest groups and did away with vehicle inspections my daughter was almost killed when a clunker with bad brakes slammed into the rear of our car.  This was less than a week after he told the country in effect that Florida was too stupid to enforce vehicle repair laws.  Now they want to ban bags rather than recycle them?  Tallahassee, ‘way to go in proving once again how idiotically DUMB you really are!!!

I re-use both paper and plastic bags. As a preschool teacher, paper bags are a valuable resource. Plastic bags are great for lining small trash cans, doggie duty, packing material, etc. And what I don’t re-use, I take back to the store to recycle. If this law is truly being brought about because of littering, then lets fine those who litter, don’t tax everyone for their inability to use a trash can.

I dont agree with this at all.  We can do better.

When I searched the web for what other states and cities are doing I found they dont need to tax.  They are going to recycling to answer the same challenges.

New York State—Recycling
New York City—Recycling
New York City—Elected not to tax plastic bags
California—Recycling
California—Did not enact proposed tax laws in both 2008 and 2009
Los Angeles County—Recycling
Virginia—Rejected ban
Colorado—Rejected ban
Chicago—Recycling
Rhode Island—Recycling
Delaware—Recycling
Missouri—Did not pass proposed bag ban in 2009…reviewing recycling
Illinois—Enacted pilot recycling program
Phoenix—Voluntary Recycling
Boston—Voluntary Recycling
Annapolis—Volutary recycling
Seattle—In 2009 the voters of Seattle voted against a referendum that would have taxed plastic bags.
Dallas—Voluntary Recycling
Austin, TX—Voluntary reduction

Data taken from the following website:
http://www.thetruthaboutplasticbags.com/facts.html

All this is another way for the state to make some money off of the people, like recycling programs and auto inspections is only to put more cost on the people and done of them help any thing. At one time this was a free country but that is going away very fast. Soon we pay the government so they can tell us what is good for us. Like they know better than we do.

Discount stores like Sav-A-Lot function on this method.  I guess people like Dave Lobdill don’t realize that they are paying for those bags - in markup on their purchases.  The stores pay for them, you know?

I do think it would make more sense to just ban the plastic bags.  The paper ones are usually recyclable and biodegradable.

Let me see if I can understand this…...  We live in a state that WON’T impose a statewide recycling program that would help save energy and resources, and that REFUSES to impose a statewide auto inspection that would reduce pollution and save lives, but is more that WILLING to propose yet another tax for the privilege of shopping for food….........that about sum it up???