http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/04/news/economy/DC_bag_tax/index.htm
"District residents have been charged 5 cents for each disposable bag they pick up at the grocery store or local market. 4 cents of the tax goes to the city, the retailer is allowed to keep 1 cent."
Its not raising the revenue they expected it to raise, and still its hailed as a giant success! The reason? Shoppers are using fewer bags.
Sounds like the criminals who setup this tax would have hailed this as a success no matter what happened.
If their goal was to have the disposable bag use fall, they should have just placed a ban on them.
Would have been much quicker and more in line with the results they were after.
Inquiring minds want to know if the retailers have lost any revenue in the area of DC vs near the area? I can state with confidence that no person in the DC who is in favor of this stupid proposal could answer my question. And I find it amazing that CNN MONEY did not bother to ask either.
it certainly doesn't seem like it could help those businesses that are victims of the tax
i think it is a nice idea!
Is this sarcasm?