Bag The Plastic Bag Tax
The NJ Plastic Bag Tax Proposal: a Totally Unnecessary (and Potentially Dangerous?) New Burden on Families and Small Businesses
By Matt Rooney, Save Jersey
In case you haven’t heard of it, the Carryout Bag Reduction and Recycling Act (S812) may be one of the least meritorious bills to grace the State House in awhile, Save Jerseyans, which is one hell of a distinction! A State Senate committee approved the legislation back in December but hasn’t received a full floor vote as of this writing.
What would the Act do? If passed and signed by the Governor, it’d impose a brand new five cent tax on every single paper or plastic grocery store bag in the Garden State.
No one outside of Trenton likes the damn thing. A recent Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll discovered 56% of registered New Jersey voters opposed the bag tax while less than 40% approved
It’s not hard to see why. The economics of such a tax are ugly…
Posted: February 11th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Economy, Environment, NJ State Legislature | Tags: Carryout Bag Reduction and Recycling Act | 2 Comments »