Tax On Plastic Bags Persuasive Essay

I believe that the state should not require super markets to charge a 25-cent fee for each plastic grocery bag. Not everyone can afford to pay for their grocery's let alone pay for the plastic bags they use to carry them out to their car and then into their home. Charging people for plastic bags will not help the environment. Just remove the plastic bags out of the stores and only use paper.
Millions of Americans can't afford basic nutrition, according to the blockbuster study. 66 percent of households said they’ve had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care. Thirty-one percent said they had to make that choice every month. Everyday people have to make these choices in America, and charging people for bags will only make people make these choices more often. (Hunter Stuart, The Huffington Post)
People will not revolve their life around if they have to pay tax on plastic bags or not. …show more content…
If the state takes plastic bags out of the grocery stores people can use paper bags. If there is a problem with something just remove the problem. If people don't have the choice of paper or plastic, and they have to use paper the environment will be much healthier.
So in my opinion charging tax on plastic bags is just not a good idea. People cannot afford groceries especially if they have to pay for the bags. People will continue to buy plastic bags when the whole point of charging people is for them to stop using them, and if they continue to buy them the bags will continue to be hurting the environment. And if you just eliminate the problem and just get rid of plastic bags in general, people won’t have a choice of plastic bags. If there are no more plastic bags, we won’t have tax on them and we will be helping the