plastic bags and Trump's GOP

[SCantiGOP]

This is really distressing. I saw a headline a few days ago about the South Carolina House considering a bill on banning the use of one-time plastic bags. Today I saw the bill has passed and been sent on to the Senate, but (sigh) the bill is to BAN local governments from regulating or banning the use of the bags, an action which several coastal cities and counties are considering because of the horrible impact this trash has when it gets into our water systems.
Of course this was a GOP-inspired move. The GOP, you know those guys right? The ones who are always telling you that the Federal Government is an over-reaching totalitarian force and that government that is closer to the people is always the more prudent and democratic? Why won't they just admit that their core political philosophy is now: "Who will pay me now or hire me later?"

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. so a bill that makes it so you CANT outlaw them

GOP should all move to a place on the planet where they can do all the harm they want, wait, that wont work either


Wow, amazing how much of a complete and total piece of shit you have to be to be a republican.

[SCantiGOP]

2. Bill will not allow a local government from banning them in their jurisdiction

Businesses can still decide whether to use them or not.
I am fine with a discussion on the merits of governmental bans on this product (a classic environmental quality vs convenience and cost argument) but how can they say that this is not a decision that should be made at the local level?

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. I am not so generous, I say ban them nationwide, period.

But anything that can harm the environment and piss off the adults, you can count on the GOP doing.

For 8 yrs they were out of their minds with someone in the WH they hated for no reason other than the obvious ones. While Obama improved their lives more with ONE of his actions than chief traitor could do in a lifetime, they hated him even more for it.

They have the opportunity now to destroy everything Obama and the adults accomplished and by god they are gonna do it even though it harms them more than anyone.

Fucking children.

[SCantiGOP]

4. Oh, I agree with you

I would be willing to have the debate, but at the end I would come down on the side of a nationwide ban.
But, I can't understand how the state legislature, which constantly rants about the feds overstepping their bounds, has no problem saying that something like this can't be legislated on the local level.
Oh wait, I did already figure that out: GOP platform is pay me now or hire me later.