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I associate re-usable bags with caring about not wasting things. You seem to value the ability to waste things. You do not seem to think it's worth preventing your dog from destroying your bags. You do not seem to exercise care to actually re-use the bags, since you say they are piling up in your home. If the standard of living is facing such a precipitous decline that you are potentially planning an escape, why would you casually throw away useful items, and continue to spend money on new items when you don't actual need to? What would you think of a person that leaves their car idling at all times and complains that they are oppressed by an increase in gas prices?

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The bags are my property, I worked for them. The collectivists fail to understand this very important part. If you want to re-use yours, you're free to do so. Mandating me to do so, is opposite of personal freedom.

At this point in time, Canadians are getting taxed on taxes. If you fail to see that this is unsustainable, maybe you'll understand that for all the taxes you're paying, should you get sick, the government will more quickly offer to end you than to give you an MRI. In fact, they just passed a law that promises to jail for 10 years anyone that try's to dissuade you from letting them end you. So it has been my experience that the collectivists don't really care about human life, as much as they say they care. Collectivist utopias never are... So I am looking, like many fellow Canadians, for a second home, in case things deteriorate any further.

Personal freedom is weighed against the freedom of others. That is why you cannot dispose of your waste in a water reservoir that supplies drinking water. The life of any product has an impact on shared resources that your work has not earned. Policies that aim to protect these shared resources are a logical solution for people who care about their country and the people in it.

yes, but I already paid taxes for the recycling plant & the garbage dump, taxes on the oil that made the bag, the store I purchased the bag from, and I paid money for the bag.

At what point will the bag be finally mine, and I just be able to bag my groceries in peace ?

No really, what do you people want from me?

The more taxes I pay for things like this, the more I empower people that think like you, to just hire more ideologically alined people to fill government and academia positions. It's worse than a clergy take over.

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