California’s Green jihad has led to bad business decisions all over LA county including Long Beach. Since before the recession California manufacturing has been on a decline. Los Angeles is still the nation’s largest industrial area, has lost a remarkable one-fifth of its manufacturing employment since 2005. California’s green theology has lead to multiple illogical economic and political decisions. The plastic bag ban law in LA county and Long Beach is a textbook example!
In November of 2010 California voters passed proposition 26, which requires local government to achieve a supermajority vote to pass new taxes and fees such as the fee associated with the plastic bag ban in Long Beach. Even though the city receives no money from this fee, the city government is still controlling how bag revenue is used. Requirements for how revenue is used means retailers are acting as an agent of the government, which under proposition 26 would qualify as a fee. Proposition 26 is supposed to stop politicians from using a loophole to raise even more taxes by disguising them as fees.
What this means is that every part of the plastic bag ban except for the fee is legal until the city of Long Beach can put a citywide vote on the matter. This vote would need to achieve two-thirds supermajority to make this 0.10 cents paper bag surcharge legal. Lets save the environment, by banning plastic bags the way San Francisco has with out a fee, a fee that will drive shoppers away from Long Beach. Why has’nt anyone taken this up in the local Long Beach courts?
Jason Aula
Eastside Long Beach
Long Beach Young Republicans Political Director
Citations:
1. Text of Proposition 26, the Supermajority Vote to Pass New Taxes and Fees Act (California)http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Text_of_Proposition_26,_the_Supermajority_Vote_to_Pass_New_Taxes_and_Fees_Act_%28California%29
2. California Proposition 26, Supermajority Vote to Pass New Taxes and Fees (2010)http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_26,_Supermajority_Vote_to_Pass_New_Taxes_and_Fees_%282010%29
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