Polluter Pays - Send Nick Smith The Bill
Save the world - one plastic bag at a time. Spare me the gibberish.
New Zealanders NEED plastic bags. Housewives line bins with them, kids put their wet togs in them, we throw scraps into them, the homeless use them to protect themselves from the rain and who can forget that we put our liquids into them on airplanes so customs officials can confirm that we are not the Taliban about to blow up the plane.
Nick Smith wants to introduce a new tax of 5 cents per bag. Why? Well.....the rest of the world is doing it so New Zealand has to follow.
No new taxes? Yes.....John Key and National?
Can we add up the environmental cost of detergent to wash re-usable bags, the carbon footprint from producing cotton bags, the time spent by the poor shopkeepers asking "Would you like a bag?". And the simple fact that New Zealand doesn't even have a bloody 5 cent coin anymore, to add up to how stupid that this new tax is?
Because plastic bags are light and compressible, they make up only 0.2 per cent of New Zealand's waste but, because they are not biodegradable, they stay in landfills for decades.
So plastic bags are not even .5% of New Zealand's waste but they stay in landfill for decades? Well it is landfill, does it bloody matter that it is in the ground? Isn't that the point of landfill?
Is the money raised from this tax going back to assist in namby-pamby environmental programs that don't make a smack of difference to the world's problems from a country of 4 million people? Nope. It goes to the supermarkets!!!
Money generated by the user-pays scheme would go back to the supermarkets, rather than into a cash pool, Dr Smith said. "I don't see this is as some sort of cash cow, what's important is changing consumer behaviour."
Progressive Enterprises spokesman Bill Moore said the company which owns Foodtown, Woolworths and Countdown believed voluntary efforts made "the most sense".
"But if the Government were to mandate a charge on plastic bags, we would, of course, support this."
A stupid idea with an even more stupid implementation plan.
Classic Nick Smith.
Someone in the National Party please put him out of his misery and put him down. If the polluter truly is going to pay, does this mean farmers will be given the bill for their environmental pollution and fart tax? Sure looks like it. Plastic bag tax is the first step.
This stupid piece of legislation will not be the last in this ridiculous assumption put out by Green propagandists that every time a human being or animal uses the earth's resources that they are somehow polluting the planet.
Nonsense.
posted by Cactus Kate at 12:32 AM
12 Comments:
We certainly reuse our supermarket bags like most do.
As we don't buy newspapers anymore(why would we with so much on line?), what else would we wrap the rubbish in.
Oh that's right we could encourage Carter Holt to produce rubbish bags that we would then have to buy.
Smith is overbrained Dick Wit.
He IS a member of the Green Party - surely. He is like Marilyn Waring, a leftie who joined the wrong party in the first place.
Did we really have a change in government?
Stupid unprincipled National!
I like what I read there!!
"BIG THUMBS UP"
Show your support by buying one bag at a time and paying them in cash!!
LOL
Burying plastic bags is a great idea, it captures carbon and keeps it locked up for zillions of years. There should be a tax subsidy for using them.
I thought the bag costs where built into the costs of the items that the supermarkets sell. Also the modern plastic bags do break down, if you find a bag that's a couple of years old, it crumbles to dust it you try and use it.
Yes plastic bags do break down.
Great for moving sheep in the yards!
John Key get rid of Dickie Smit!
Kate - Pak n Slave has been charging 5c a bag for years. Before that I used to get half a dozen bags with my groceries. Now I buy a few dozen each time I do the shopping because they are so damned handy. They also break down to almost nothing in a few years and are made out of gas that is a by-product of oil refining.
Nick is a greenie in disguise, I always thought that, now we have nanny state under National, thanks a lot!
If they charge you at the supermarket,go piss them off. All we need to do is to allow the check out busy bodies to randomly fill the bags, charge you and you pay and then ask them to repack th bags so the bags are fully utilized and give you a credit for the ones over supplied. Now that will be fun cause I reckon that in next to no time the wallies that are going to get the money will soon realize they are pissing off all their customers and the amount gained from the extra charge is soon swallowed up by wages repacking the bags.
Sounds like a lot of fun on a busy day.
Hehe.
Bretts right....plastic bags do break down after awhile into flakes...which I guess then form gangs and go and strangle baby dolphins or some such shit..
Nick Smith is on the fringes of National - and thankfully has been slapped down by Key. End of story.
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