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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on January 26, 2018, 07:25:22 AM

Title: California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
Post by: Lucifer on January 26, 2018, 07:25:22 AM
http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/california-bill-would-criminalize-restau

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Ian Calderon wants restaurateurs to think long and hard before giving you a straw.

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.
Title: Re: California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
Post by: Anthony on January 26, 2018, 07:38:16 AM
Don't these people have better things to do?  I also have recently heard that some areas (all Progressive) in the country have a "plastic bag fee" at the grocery store.  So now people are bringing in these nasty, dirty, bacteria ridden cloth bags.  Disgusting, and unsanitary.  I guess they will have to bring their own straws now before they get banned. 

Morons!
Title: Re: California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
Post by: Lucifer on January 26, 2018, 07:41:57 AM
Don't these people have better things to do?  I also have recently heard that some areas (all Progressive) areas in the country have a "plastic bag fee" at the grocery store.  So now people are bringing in these nasty, dirty, bacteria ridden cloth bags.  Disgusting, and unsanitary.  I guess they will have to bring their own straws now before they get banned. 

Morons!

 The backbone of the progressive ideology is "We know what's best for you, and we will impose our will upon you, like it or not!"

 But hey, weren't we told recently that the federal government could learn a thing or two from how California operates?
Title: Re: California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
Post by: Anthony on January 26, 2018, 07:56:40 AM
The backbone of the progressive ideology is "We know what's best for you, and we will impose our will upon you, like it or not!"

 But hey, weren't we told recently that the federal government could learn a thing or two from how California operates?

California is a dumpster fire.  I lived there for a year, and while there is a lot of neat stuff there, I couldn't take it.  The Progressives have ruined that state.  It is a shame, because it has a lot to offer in climate, and geography. 
Title: Re: California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
Post by: nddons on January 26, 2018, 07:58:50 AM
Solution:  re-use straws!  Duh. Why is this so hard? 
Title: Re: California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
Post by: bflynn on January 26, 2018, 06:49:18 PM
Solution:  re-use straws!  Duh. Why is this so hard?

Oooh, great idea.  Then we can have a government sponsored free straw exchange to safely get rid of all the dirty straws and hopefully the social diseases transmitted by them.  Just remember that when you're sucking on a straw, you also sucking on everything that anyone who previously sucked on that straw sucked.
Title: Re: California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
Post by: nddons on January 26, 2018, 07:38:31 PM
Oooh, great idea.  Then we can have a government sponsored free straw exchange to safely get rid of all the dirty straws and hopefully the social diseases transmitted by them.  Just remember that when you're sucking on a straw, you also sucking on everything that anyone who previously sucked on that straw sucked.
Obviously.

Reusable toilet paper is next.
Title: Re: California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
Post by: deeg on January 29, 2018, 07:37:07 AM
Obviously.

Reusable toilet paper is next.

Naw, they'll just do what the Thai's do. Squat toilets and the 'bum gun'.