{"id":8813,"date":"2012-04-10T20:19:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T01:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservative-compendium.com\/wordpress\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2012-04-10T20:19:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T01:19:24","slug":"overgovernment-no-bags-for-you-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/2012\/04\/overgovernment-no-bags-for-you-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Overgovernment: No Bags For You Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think nannies just put things on a giant roulette wheel and spin to find the next thing to ban. For the enviro-nuts in Los Angeles, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/04\/10\/l-a-city-council-passes-ban-on-paper-and-plastic-bags\/\">the new(ish) evil is disposable bags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know that horrible feeling when you get to the grocery store  ready to use reusable bags and realize you forgot them at home? Well,  pretty soon forgetting them won\u2019t be an option for customers at 7,500  supermarkets throughout California.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-bag-ban-20120405,0,2360183.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>,  the \u00a0Los Angeles City Council\u2019s Energy and Environment Committee  approved a ban on plastic and paper bags at grocery stores last  Wednesday, saying it would make consumers more likely to use reusable  bags. It has not yet been voted by the City Council as a whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My own little bastion of tyranny, otherwise known as Montgomery County, Maryland, recently decided to slap a pointless and obnoxious $.05 tax on bags. So I have to actually tell the cashier at Subway that yes, I want a freaking bag; I&#8217;m not going to just carry around a bagless sandwich like a hobo.<\/p>\n<p>What has the world come to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think nannies just put things on a giant roulette wheel and spin to find the next thing to ban. For the enviro-nuts in Los Angeles, the new(ish) evil is disposable bags. You know that horrible feeling when you get to the grocery store ready to use reusable bags and realize you forgot them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}