{"id":1525,"date":"2014-09-09T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2014-09-09T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:41:05","slug":"ca-legislature-declares-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/ca-legislature-declares-war\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Legislature Declares WAR!!&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/ca-legislature-declares-war\/\" data-text=\"CA Legislature Declares WAR!!&#038;%238230;&#038;%238230;\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Not content to ban single use plastic shopping bags, the California Legislature has moved to ban free distribution of single use PAPER shopping bags at stores and supermarkets. \u00a0Notice I said <em>free<\/em> distribution. \u00a0Per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leginfo.ca.gov\/pub\/13-14\/bill\/sen\/sb_0251-0300\/sb_270_bill_20140818_amended_asm_v95.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 270<\/a>, single use carryout bags may still be provided to customers &#8211; <em>at a cost of not less than ten cents each<\/em>. \u00a0So apparently all those extra dimes floating around will be the solution to whatever problem was caused by single use plastic or paper carryout shopping bags. \u00a0Oh wait. \u00a0There <em>never was<\/em> a problem caused by either of these. \u00a0So&#8230;problem solved anyway! \u00a0And it only costs a dime! \u00a0Huzzah!! \u00a0Be sure to look for more small change based solutions coming your way from the geniuses in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/soon-we-will-all-be-mandated-to-haul-our\" target=\"_blank\">Reason.com &#8211; Soon We Will Be Mandated To Haul Our Groceries, Booze and Hamburgers Around In Organic-Certified, Fair-Trade, Shade-Grown Burlap Sacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/29\/calif-plastic-bag-ban-survives-after-all\" target=\"_blank\">Reason.com &#8211; California Plastic Bag Ban Survives After All<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope that not all liberals are fuzzy headed enough to believe that plastic shopping bags are the scourge of our lifetime, but I don&#8217;t see any evidence of that. \u00a0I reuse virtually all of the plastic shopping bags I get when I shop, so if they are banned I will simply have to buy <em>other<\/em> plastic bags for those uses. \u00a0Amount of plastic &#8220;saved&#8221;? Zero. \u00a0The platic bags are recyclable (as are the paper bags). \u00a0Yet they are not listed as acceptable materials to be placed in the County recycle containers where I live (the paper bags can be placed in the recycle bins). \u00a0I will not use re-usable bags that are transporters of E. Coli and Salmonlella, which is a far greater real problem than any imagined issue related to plastic bags. There are so many common sense &#8220;solutions&#8221; to any of the so-called problems created by shopping bags, however, they require a little thought instead of just a knee-jerk reaction. \u00a0And as we all know by know, there is no room for thoughtful reflection or logic when it comes to creating the Liberal Utopia of California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/ca-legislature-declares-war\/dumbmeme\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1527\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1527\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dumbmeme.jpg\" alt=\"dumbmeme\" width=\"403\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dumbmeme.jpg 403w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dumbmeme-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dumbmeme-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Not content to ban single use plastic shopping bags, the California Legislature has moved to ban free distribution of single use PAPER shopping bags at stores and supermarkets. \u00a0Notice I said free distribution. \u00a0Per Senate Bill 270, single use carryout bags may still be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}