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| DATE | 2017-01-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] good news
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http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trashing-city-playing-politics-bag-fee-article-1.2952014
What they forgot to mention was that those elected officials come from
the heart and soul of the largest working class family raising sections
of the city. And they don't want to go with a dozen bags in their purse
of knap sack every Thursday before Shabbat...
Aside from the fact that the government needs to lay off.
Trashing their own city by playing politics on a bag fee
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Bag it. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/For New York Daily News )
Editorials
Editorials
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, January 22, 2017, 4:05 AM
Call them the dirty dozen: The craven state senators from the five
boroughs who rushed to steal power from their city in order to puff up
their own, as emptily as a discarded plastic grocery bag.
Such is the small-change crusade led by Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, and
aided by Sens. Joe Addabbo, Ruben Diaz, Jeff Klein, Michael Gianaris,
Diane Savino, Toby Stavisky, Roxanne Persaud, Jose Peralta, Marty
Golden, Tony Avella and Leroy Comrie.
Last week, they voted as part of a Senate majority to block a New York
City law requiring retailers to charge a nickel fee for each plastic or
paper bag dispensed, set to go into effect next month.
As with similar fees set for Suffolk County and Long Beach, L.I. — and
already in effect in California, Washington, D.C., and Seattle — the
City Council intends to give consumers a nudge to bring their own
reusable bags instead.
Don’t want to pay the fee? No one has to.
With city consumers currently discarding disposable, extruded-petroleum
bags by the billions, too many of which find their ways into trees and
bodies of water, the measure shows promise to clean up our filthy act.
Felder’s flunkies instead listened to loud voices decrying the fee as a
regressive tax. They ignore that those paying with public assistance
funds are excluded, that free giveaways of reusable bags are part of the
program, and that grocery stores can still bag poultry and other
potentially unsanitary items in plastic, free of charge.
Adding offense to injury, the city senators voted to slap down the NYC
bag fee while letting its Long Island counterparts stand.
More than two dozen city Assembly members are part of the push against
home rule. On their behalf, Speaker Carl Heastie raises concerns about a
provision allowing stores to charge more than 5 cents, intended to
facilitate sale of reusable bags, even as he says: “You don’t want to
take away the locality’s autonomy .”
All who bigfoot the City Council will be saddled with the shame of
subverting a duly elected government body — and the untimely liability,
as the new Congress weighs blocking state legislatures on matters such
as gun control, of having no high ground to stand on.
Council members approved the measure last year by a healthy majority and
even agreed to delay the nickel charge until Feb. 15. In further
goodwill and good sense, the Council also required the Department of
Sanitation to study the fee’s effects, allowing for future adjustments
or even the fee’s abolition based on the facts.
Pfft, who needs facts when proud ignorance backed up by bully tactics
can do the trick.
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