Did you guys hear about the Alderman that came up with the idea to tax bottled water? One of our more brilliant city council members wants to find a way to close a $270 million dollar budget deficit by taxing H2O. <--(Remember this link for today's later post, they'll be a test.)
According to the fab 50, it all about the environment. Really, what it's about is the fact our alderman need to find a way to keep busy while draining the dumb tax payers into thinking it's about the enviorment.
The fact is, they've blown through your tax payer money, like Joe Moore does during election season. Now, they need more. Chicago City council's version of a campaign fundraiser.
So what's this have to do with the blog of the week? Here's a blogger that helped me come up with an idea. I say Joe Moore impose a chip bag tax of 25 cents for every bag of chips sold in Rogers Park. That should help close the gab in the budget. Or the very least, help keep some of these bags from winding up blowing around the streets of Rogers Park. Oh, and it would give the Special Service Area #24 tax one less item to pick-up on a daily basis.
Think of the money that could be raised? Think of all the plastic we could save? Think of all the children lives we could save with obesity/nutrition and health issues? Think about how we could save the enviorment with less of these chip bags flying around. We need to impose this tax on chip bags, not bottled water. Joe Moore, are you listening?
8 comments:
So the city wants to tax bottled water and is encouraging people to drink more tap water hmmmm if everyone did that then we WILL have to tax bags of Cheetohs
CHIP BAG TAX WOULD BE AN EXCELLANT IDEA-
CHIP BAG FOOD IS NOTHING BUT HIGH PROFIT JUNK FOOD-
ANY COMENTS GANG--
PS- SICKING--HAVE TO PICK THE BAGS UP EVER DAY IN AND AROND WHERE I LIVE-
What is hard to believe is that these governments are running deficits. My taxes have gone up over 100% in the last ten years and I am sure that your have to. Where is all the money? The sad fact is that JoMo is just the tip of the iceberg. All these politicians do is hire their friends. While we have to pray that our infrastructure doesn't fail. Look around, this place is falling apart. Every viaduct is crumbling, sinkholes, park in disrepair....the list is long.
I don't know why the city singled out "bottled water" when the appropriate thing to do would be do put a "deposit" requirement on ALL containers made of plastic, especially petroleum-based plastic; a move that would help trigger more recycling of plastic products.
Our AlderMorons are wasting their time and our money singling out this product or that for attack, rather than acting on principal. So they outlaw foie gras instead of campaigning for better treatment of farm animals across the board, and they attack bottled water, a harmless thing, rather than develop a thorough and uniform recycling program that would make a meaningful dent in the city's consumption of non-renewables and disposal of hazardous materials in environmentally destructive ways.
Personally, I keep bottled water around only for emergencies, and drink tap water otherwise- I believe in supporting tap water culture. I've always had a creeping fear that if everyone with any means took to drinking bottled water exclusively, our municipal water supplies, which are among our most precious civic services, would deteriorate as has happened in other U.S. cities.
However, that is just my personal thing, that I don't care to inflict on the rest of the population. I'd much rather see the city develop a comprehensive, uniform recycling program covering all non-renewable and hazardous materials, that everyone must participate in.
the north coast, I like the way your brain works. I couldn't agree with you more.
By the way, the phrase, "tap water culture" sounds like one of those rallying points separating the haves from the have-nots, or, perhaps more apropos, the mindless consumers from the ecologically concerned.
- PEACE -
interesting
sperry ran the cheetos thing a monthish ago on her site
A bottle and can deposit program and an improved recycling program would be a better answer.
yeah, the good ol days
at the corner store, we used to get a nickel for quart pop bottles and two cents for anything smaller
many jurisdictions provide each household with plastic separation containers for glass, plastic and cans. and it's the law/responsi-bility of the household to separate the items before leaving them at the curb
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