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The vultures are already gathering......

I just hung up on a potential hay customer. 

Rudely. 

Color me not much of a businesswoman. After several minutes of lectures about how we have to deliver, how we can't say first come first served for hay....we do not hold it for anyone....came warnings about Johne's from spreading manure because of the state, meat not being safe to eat, and on and on, I lost it at Roundup in milk.

No.

Just no.

We don't have to do anything we don't want to do other than pay taxes and die. We don't have to deliver. We don't have to hold hay for complete strangers, just because they say so, when we have good customers who are nice people who come regularly. 

And there is no Roundup in milk. I intend to continue drinking a goodly quantity of said milk every single day until I fulfill one of those requirements above, and I don't mean the taxes....although that is why we sell hay in the first place...to pay taxes.

Somebody else wants the rest of the hay anyhow, and will soon be here to pick it up. 

Color me glad. Then I can go back to only answering the phone when I recognize the number, thus only talking to friends, family, and the library.

The NYS Plastic Bag Ban

Is a TAX. People will buy the replacement paper bags for speed and convenience and state government will get most of the money thus generated, to spend on more of their endless folly and waste. Unnamed local government will get the rest....unnamed..... Who do you think will decide where that money goes?

Washing all those reusable bags will have an environmental impact as well. You know....electricity to run the appliances, extra detergent, dirty water that will be produced, time wasted that might be spent doing something productive. 

And all the doggie doo doo that will have to be picked up without them. What? You aren't going to use your reusable cloth bags for that? Nope, you will have to buy bags, defeating the entire purpose...or at least the purported purpose...of the ban. More single use plastic that is REALLY single use will be generated if you get my drift. And people commenting on news stories are EAGER to buy these bags, which they will then throw away. What on earth is the difference?

Plus we will all spend more time getting our groceries because have to mess around with them. Do you drag them through the store and fumble with them at the cash register, driving the people behind you in line nuts? Or do you haul your unbagged groceries out bare nekkid in the cart, in the rain, snow, sleet etc, and bag them at your car?

Eh, we will all be paying for the vast sums of our money our illustrious governor has sent out of state, those grandstanding lawsuits, the gimme programs for criminals and people who can be trusted to vote the right way, and billions in developments that never developed.....again....plus pay sales tax on everything we have to buy to replace the darned things.

Seems like a complete win-win to me. For the government that is. If sheeple put as much effort into noticing why the state has such a huge budget deficit to fill as they do getting all excited about this smoke and mirrors show, maybe they would vote the big spenders out instead of virtue signalling over how they get their groceries home.

There is a lot of really bad junk in the proposed state budget that is being utterly ignored so people can wave their politically correct grocery bags like a flag of environmental superiority and don't have to think about paying more in taxes for everything they touch.

And that is not to mention this.....

And this..."you can train people..." Should we be welcoming the government training us?

Will it make a difference? California did it, and their cities seem to still be hives of filth and pollution a lot worse than a couple of bags here and there. 

A nickle deposit might be somewhat more palatable in the quest to corral our baggies. Or at least it would be for me.