The Bag Tax as a Big Hassle
I am opposed to any bag tax but could make peace with it if it only applied to grocery stores as those visits are planned and I am 50/50 to remember to bring the non-disposable bags along.
But as Jackson posted, the DC bag rules are confusing and apply too broadly.
In fact they are ridiculous and affect every establishment that sells food or liquor. That means that if you order greasy Chinese take-out you better be ready to have it spill into the 99 cent Whole Foods bag that you just purchased.
Last Saturday I witnessed dozens of people walking down 14th street cradling bottles of wine in their arms.
The law also applies to Politics and Prose, the famed DC bookstore, because they sell mints, which under DC law are considered “food.” Politics and Prose are discontinuing the offending mints so that they can give bags without the tax.
