New York City's corrupt left-wing City Council rammed through a bag tax despite the impact it will have on working families. The bag tax was sold with staged rallies of exploited children, lies about the environment (the tax applies to paper bags that are easily recyclable) and was written by an environmentalist radical from California with links to the same lobby that got bag bans done over there.
But working families in the city remain outraged about the Big Green tax. And some of their elected representatives are fighting back. While the New York City Council has become a hopeless nest of corrupt ACORN leftists, the New York State Senate might step in to protect New Yorkers from Big Green's greed.
Senator Simcha Felder and Assemblyman Michael Cusick’s bill (S.7336) to protect New Yorkers from taxes or fees on the use of plastic bags was unanimously passed by the New York State Senate Standing Committee on Cities to the Senate Floor yesterday. The bill would stop the move by the New York City Council to impose a tax on every plastic bag used to carry out groceries or other merchandise from a retailer.
“The last thing that New Yorkers need is another regressive tax,” said Senator Felder, who has fought the plastic bag tax since his days as a NY City Councilman. “I’ve been disgusted every time I’ve heard the absurd plastic bag tax legislation introduced. It’s about time New York City stops nickel and diming New Yorkers. This tax places an undue financial burden on countless low- and middle-income New Yorkers who are already struggling. Perhaps worst of all, it also presents a serious public health problem, by encouraging people to bring reusable bags back into stores, spreading things like salmonella, bacteria and other food-borne diseases, and putting both the person reusing the bag as well as all the other customers in the store at risk.”
The bill has broad bipartisan support in the Senate.
Assemblyman Michael Cusick (Staten Island) is an equally strong opponent to the New York City Bag Tax, and has introduced the bill to stop it in the State Assembly.
New Yorkers concerned about public health and working families have an opportunity to stop this Big Green Greed Tax on working families by reaching out to assemblymen and senators. While the tax has been imposed on New York City, for now, the intention of Big Green is to force it down the throats of working people in every city, town and village. Every victory only emboldens Big Green's war on working families.
Here's a link to Senate Bill S7336.