The Bag Tax

We live in a city where our elected officials have way too much time on their hands.  This week, the highly paid city council approved our mayor's request for a tax on grocery shopping bags, both paper and plastic.  Unless you bring a bag with you, you're charged 20 ¢ a bag.  Apparently the idea is to save space in land fills.  

I read a few days ago about some small town in Alabama where a yellow lab, co-owner of a coffee shop, is running for mayor.  And now, I am thinking Sage and Murphy ought to run in Seattle.   We could certainly use the money, I mean the city council's salary is way over 100 thousand and the mayor makes big bucks plus has a security detail!  Maybe Sage and Murphy would actually work on some real problems and issues, you know, like rotting infrastructure, homelessness, and not engage in sound bite environmentalism, disguising a tax an environmental fee (the bag tax is expected to bring in 3.5 million in revenue but the program is going to cost $500, 000).

I could get into a rant about how this kind of tax is not the way to change behaviors, but I think I would rather ask "the girls" if they want to run for office.  I think today's picture would make a great campaign photo.  Of course, anyone who runs against them will have a field day with  the skeletons in both of the girls' closets....

Bag tax...good grief!

Murphy's day and Sage, well, she is moving forward.