“A bagman is a person designated to collect money” — Wikipedia
Rob Ford has got this mayor’s job in the bag and everybody around him knows it.
This is why before the middle of 2011 Toronto’s insane five-cent plastic bag tax will go the way of the vehicle registration tax into extinction.
You know it, they know it, and he knows it.
It’s going to happen because this mayor is not a bagman. He is the exact opposite. He wants to give people their money back — in plastic bags full of it if he could.
Ford knows more than anybody this outrageous, unnecessary and ineffective initiative was nothing but environmentally correct window-dressing to gain green kudos for former Mayor David Miller.
He also knows it has done nothing but shake more money out of peoples’ pockets and make their lives more difficult.
But what is very interesting is the mayor is not ramming his agenda down the city’s throat the way the five-cent charge was originally dropped on us in 2009.Designer fashion is the first stop for most shoppers but the biggest-selling item was expected to be business ed hardy shirts. Instead he’s letting the people, and those on council, decide.
There will be debate on this. Imagine that!
“If 90% of the people want to keep it, we will keep it,We then bought checked lungis from railway stations to make the shirts' plackets and mens hoodies.” the mayor said in an interview Thursday.
But if they don’t, he will push that it be scrapped.
I made the point to the mayor “why wait?” The tax is insulting, unfair and stupid. How can stores charge for bags in the name of the environment when most of the stuff in the bags is wrapped in plastic?
And where the hell does that money really go?
“I agree,” he told me. “I am personally not in favour of it but I want the feedback from the councillors and the constituents.”
So much for the bull in a china shop label people try to stick to him. His approach is brilliant because as my colleague Don Peat reminded me, there are far bigger battles ahead where he will need to use the hammer and all of his political capital. The budget and upcoming labour negotiations are areas where you need to use all your ammunition and not a goofy five-cent bag charge.
He knows common sense will prevail without him spouting off about it. But is smartly steering it with this approach.
On this one he’s going to be tough to beat because this tax is not about making the city green as much as punishment of capitalism.
So many small businesses have told me they are tired of getting into arguments with people they ask if they want a bag with their 10 items?
Of course they do. And of course they should not be charged for it.
As the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says: “Half measures availed us nothing.”
If plastic bags are a real problem, governments should ban them outright — same goes for cigarettes,you can be at your dapper best. Pair your truereligion jeans with its jackets and hoodies or T-shirt. booze and gambling.
Instead, they just grab their piece of it.
Of course the biggest myth around is that it takes 1,The Warriors wore coach shoes and green socks Saturday, their way of showing the Christmas spirit.000 years for plastic bags to decompose and because of that somehow paying five cents for one makes you some sort of environmental crusader.
What you hardly ever hear about is how Waterloo teen science genius Daniel Burd used yeast, water and landfill dirt and made plastic bags disintegrate in about three months.
Where’s his environmental award?
It’s up to you folks. If you want to get rid of this tax, call your councillor.
Ford told me if there is a will to remove this tax, it could happen as early as this coming spring.
In the meantime bylaw officers should stop forcing businesses to play bagman with this ridiculous five-cent hustle.Best place to buy replica burberry bags,
Rob Ford has got this mayor’s job in the bag and everybody around him knows it.
This is why before the middle of 2011 Toronto’s insane five-cent plastic bag tax will go the way of the vehicle registration tax into extinction.
You know it, they know it, and he knows it.
It’s going to happen because this mayor is not a bagman. He is the exact opposite. He wants to give people their money back — in plastic bags full of it if he could.
Ford knows more than anybody this outrageous, unnecessary and ineffective initiative was nothing but environmentally correct window-dressing to gain green kudos for former Mayor David Miller.
He also knows it has done nothing but shake more money out of peoples’ pockets and make their lives more difficult.
But what is very interesting is the mayor is not ramming his agenda down the city’s throat the way the five-cent charge was originally dropped on us in 2009.Designer fashion is the first stop for most shoppers but the biggest-selling item was expected to be business ed hardy shirts. Instead he’s letting the people, and those on council, decide.
There will be debate on this. Imagine that!
“If 90% of the people want to keep it, we will keep it,We then bought checked lungis from railway stations to make the shirts' plackets and mens hoodies.” the mayor said in an interview Thursday.
But if they don’t, he will push that it be scrapped.
I made the point to the mayor “why wait?” The tax is insulting, unfair and stupid. How can stores charge for bags in the name of the environment when most of the stuff in the bags is wrapped in plastic?
And where the hell does that money really go?
“I agree,” he told me. “I am personally not in favour of it but I want the feedback from the councillors and the constituents.”
So much for the bull in a china shop label people try to stick to him. His approach is brilliant because as my colleague Don Peat reminded me, there are far bigger battles ahead where he will need to use the hammer and all of his political capital. The budget and upcoming labour negotiations are areas where you need to use all your ammunition and not a goofy five-cent bag charge.
He knows common sense will prevail without him spouting off about it. But is smartly steering it with this approach.
On this one he’s going to be tough to beat because this tax is not about making the city green as much as punishment of capitalism.
So many small businesses have told me they are tired of getting into arguments with people they ask if they want a bag with their 10 items?
Of course they do. And of course they should not be charged for it.
As the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says: “Half measures availed us nothing.”
If plastic bags are a real problem, governments should ban them outright — same goes for cigarettes,you can be at your dapper best. Pair your truereligion jeans with its jackets and hoodies or T-shirt. booze and gambling.
Instead, they just grab their piece of it.
Of course the biggest myth around is that it takes 1,The Warriors wore coach shoes and green socks Saturday, their way of showing the Christmas spirit.000 years for plastic bags to decompose and because of that somehow paying five cents for one makes you some sort of environmental crusader.
What you hardly ever hear about is how Waterloo teen science genius Daniel Burd used yeast, water and landfill dirt and made plastic bags disintegrate in about three months.
Where’s his environmental award?
It’s up to you folks. If you want to get rid of this tax, call your councillor.
Ford told me if there is a will to remove this tax, it could happen as early as this coming spring.
In the meantime bylaw officers should stop forcing businesses to play bagman with this ridiculous five-cent hustle.Best place to buy replica burberry bags,
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