As I watched shoppers come out of King Soopers, I noticed the results of the new bag tax (oops, fee?), no more nice brown plastic or paper bags to save and use in my small garbage cans.

How did our geniuses in Denver come up with that green plan? Easy answer: four easily compressible plastic bags is the equivalent of one 16 oz. drink bottle ... 10 cents per bag, nothing for thousands (millions?) of bottles which get thrown around. No way they could convince us to pay 40 cents per bottle ... so a 10 cent bag tax (sorry, fee) is easier for us to swallow, to get the money for the general fund. It’s always about the money, not the environment.

Richard Scheper Colorado Springs