17 bags, please
Now City Council has adopted a 10-cent tax for every retail paper bag you use. This on top of the plastic bag ban. Maybe next, they’ll ban pockets in your pants. I already use a cloth tote, but this bag ban is incredibly annoying when you forget your cloth bag, and the store doesn’t have any paper/plastic bags at the counter. I see people juggling 10 items in their arms as they stagger out the door. Ten cents a bag seems small, but if you buy four bags of groceries a week and double-bag them as many people do, the cost adds up quickly. What bothers me most is the socialism creeping into our lives, with its soda taxes and bag bans — and the government nose stuck into every facet of my daily life. Really, I’d buy 17 paper bags — if City Council would wear them over their heads.
Richard Iaconelli
Rhawnhurst
Do your job, Larry
So Krasner wants to be a “civil rights attorney.“ I guess that’s because he sucks at being a real district attorney. Just ask Kada Scott. Supposedly a “human rights prosecutor“ who protects black, brown and poor people as well as victims of crime, immigrants, wrongfully convicted people and those who feel “voiceless.” I would say he left out a few categories of people in his statement. You can start with Asians and whites. As far as those who feel “voiceless,” that is basically the population of Philadelphia when it comes to the incompetent district attorney’s office. How about prosecuting crime in Philadelphia instead of grandstanding in Geneva. Where are Democratic leaders They should be putting pressure on their brother to do his job.
Richard Donofry
East Torresdale
