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Originally Posted by Bladewire
2 liter of Coke here is $2 on sale and we pay 10 cents per plastic bag at checkout unless we bring our own.
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Normal price here like $1.99 for Pepsi but they go on sale sometimes like 4 2-liters for $5 so $1.25 each. Plastic bag tax .07
I'd be fine with the tax if it actually went to like pay people to dig plastic out of landfills or make books for kids like "Hey Suzy don't drink 3 2-liters a day or you'll end up a fat ass like your mom when your older.
Not a fan of random taxes to pay bills though. Can't just keep creating taxes due to a lack of any form of a realistic budget on the table or paycuts for politicians. You can continue to create taxes but the reason more people continue to flee from Chicago (Cook County, also known as Crook County) as I could be outta Cook County in like a 20-30 minute drive. Cigarettes $11-$13 pack in Cook County, I drive 20 minutes and their just over $6 out the door.
Plastic bag tax hasn't generated what they expected as most are like fuck Chicago and bringing their own bags. On the cigarette taxes I haven't bought them in Cook County in years so just creating more sales over the border in other counties so fucking the local retailer as well.
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