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I wish we had a plastic tax. Everything is wrapped in so much unnecessary plastic.
NJ had a single use plastic bag tax. To get around it companies increased the thickness of plastic bags and gave it for free. Apparently the thickness is what separated a single use bag with a reusable one. Politicians are clowns ๐คก.
Same up in Connecticut. I have so many crappy "reusable" plastic bags from Target pickup orders during the height of the pandemic. I can't bring myself to get rid of them because they're "reusable", so I use them to hold donations for the thrift store and get rid of them that way. I also use them as packing material.
I have other, nicer bags I use when I go to shopping.
Politicians are clowns is what you said while it was companies skirting the spirit of the law by exploiting a loophole.
Amazing that is your take
Imagine writing laws as a job and leaving such an obvious loophole.
Yes, politicians are clowns.
I would envision a plastic tax that is based on weight of the material created. Every ounce costs $.10.Make the producer last. Same with Styrofoam. That money could be funneled back to some green initiative.
Unfortunately, the plastic tax is enacted in terms of climate upheavals, and levied upon the poorest people in the world, usually in some other nation entirely rather than the originator.:-(
That's, why we need a monetary plastic tax to discourage its use.
Except "we" (imperial nations) don't want to pay that, generally speaking.
Notably, some places do think of such things though, and do have such taxes in place. Though conservatives are now in charge in many places in the world, so these are the local hold-outs against an overwhelming global trend.
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Have yourself a smoke and a coke
I prefer a cigar and a waffle
Flapjack and a cigarette?
Bong and a blintz?
There's no pleasing you Mr. Powers
I literally read this in his voice
Hoagie and a Stogie
I take my waffles blue
I don't know why but Coke and a smoke sounds better to me
You've heard of Elf on a Shelf...
Is that Rocco from Boondock Saints? I didn't remember him looking that haggard in that scene.
It's the jpeg.
Pretty sure that's a gif ...
Oh jerboa doesn't play them. Either way it's the artifacting.
Those sized Coke's are $3 where I live. That cigarette doesn't look like it's worth $2 tho.
Is that american dollars ur talking. Cos that label looks awfully familiar I think that sign may be in Aussie dollarydoos.
0.5L of coke are 3$ at your place? I pay 1-2โฌ for 1.5L here in Germany in the single use bottles and 1โฌ for a glass bottle of 0.5L
With the cost of ciggies in Australia, that seems like a straight up bargain. The typeface makes it look like a Woolies product.
Coke and a smoke. Cant go wrong with that combo tbh.
Pilot's breakfast lol.
Wrong coke...
Damn, that's expensive. Is this a gas station?
I'd bet money it's an Australian Woolworths (it can still be a woolies at a servo though). Just pointing it out since AUD $5 โ USD $5
Good point. IIRC Australia also has relatively high tobacco taxes, right?
Yeah an ever increasing tax on durries. From memory a deck is upwards of $50 for 20 - probably more since I've not been on the darts for a long time now.
We've also got a massive issue with disposable vapes and black market durries now too!
Damn, that's a lot! The $5 cig-and-coke makes a lot more sense like that, that's $2.5 per cigarrette.
I used to buy 40 at the golf club (unmonitored vending machine) as a kid, selling loosies for $1. Margins were great back then.
3.16 USD
3.01 EUR
It's a woolies, and you could buy 2 and a half cokes for that price.
Yes, and that would be expensive for a single bottle (though servos are pricier), but we can't see what the actual special deal is. The cigarettes are obviously placed as a joke.
The deal is a choccy bar normally
This looks very much like an Australian service (gas) station called Coles Express. $5 is pretty average for this deal which is typically a 600ml Coke and a Chocolate (candy) bar of your choice. These darts look to be added as a joke. I could be way off, but that's what it looks like to me.
Bloody close, it's a woolies servo from what I reckon.
3pm tradie knockoff special if I've ever seen one!
They didn't want to sell the cigarette separately or a cop would show up to stand on their neck.
Very healthy
Smokin' & drinkin'.
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