Plastic Bag Ordinance is Stupid & Punitive

Wow city council. Way to show some moral courage.

Turn your back on mental health, but take a firm stand on disposable plastic bags. Way to make a political stand and be focused on what's really important to this community. I'm glad that city council put aside the trivial stuff like mental health in order to focus on the most important issue to El Paso, the evil scourge of plastic bags.

I hope city council starts a Plastic Bag Awareness Month. Maybe we can find some ecologically friendly material to make commemorative ribbons as a reminder of how vigilant we must be to combat the various evils of plastic bags. We must combat the convenience of plastic bags. We must stop the poor from saving the bags and re-using them for a range of other uses. We should not let that happen!

In fact, the ribbons should be white, just like most of those cursed bags!

Okay, if you haven't caught my sarcasm, let me just end with this. I hope people pay attention to some of the decisions of city council and start making decisions accordingly. They turn their back on the mentally ill of this community but want to take on plastic bags?

This tax they want to impose will be passed on to customers. Poor people feel the affect of these taxes to a greater degree than anyone else because it makes up a significantly greater part of their income.

Way to watch out for the little guy city council!