I don't mind paying taxes for the services we receive, but this nuisance tax should be repealed!

Another nanny govt. exercise in idiocy.
I think the tax should be $1.00/bag.
That would stir the voters to oust the Monthomery County
govt. en mass.
Why not just have NO bags-carry your purchases in your hands. That will surely increase business
I am so glad I am not a retailer who has to deal with governments
Do you wonder why lower paying jobs are disappearing?
Ask the bag makers!

I could care less about the 5 cent charge. I reuse nearly every bag, plastic or paper, that comes into my home. There are likely 2 doz in my broom closet, 1 in my car for trash, 1 to carry food for my church collection, 1 when giving a toy to a neighbor's child, use them in the frig/freezer for a complete seal on leftovers, daily food scraps to garbage, You get the picture!

Oh, let's see. I have been around for a decade or two, or three, or four, or, well, let's stop there, you get the point. I used to carry my paper products to the Giant Food store in Westbard for recycling, I had a non-food compost pile that a neighbor objected to and made me remove, I specifically did not build on my yard to allow water to be absorbed rather than run off. You get the point. Now some bloody fool in the government thinks I should pay for bags for my purchases? This is just the dumbest idea to come to pass but then this is Montgomery County, MD. Why should I expect more contemplative ways to manage materials.

Allow paper bags and recycle them. Why ask citizens to put their food products in dirty bags? Some of the reusable bags I see in stores are actually scary. Who knows what these dirty things are introducing?

This is just one of the dumbest acts our council has thought in quite a long time. The cost of the bag is incorporated into the cost of the purchase. Why dip twice? Oh, yes, I forgot, because they can.

PS What happens to the reusable bags once they finally poop out? Oh, yes, landfill.

What does everyone think would be a better way for the county to encourage residents to recycle and reuse pastic/paper bags?

Stop being so selfish people, you can survive without them and as sad as it is, the only thing that works is hitting people in the pocket. Have you heard of the Cigarette tax? Same idea. Bags are bad.

Plastic Bag Use in DC Drops From 22 Million to 3 Million a Month

Washington DC's 5 cent tax on plastic bags, instated just this past January, has already proven to have a phenomenal impact: the number of plastic bags handed out by supermarkets and other establishments dropped from the 2009 monthly average of 22.5 million to just 3 million in January. While significantly reducing plastic waste, the tax simultaneously generated $150,000 in revenue, which will be used to clean up the Anacostia River.

Spend $5 and purchase one of their grocery 'tote bags' I carry a large one to the store on ea. trip.

I don't want to put food into dirty bags. I tried to use the bloody things and they gross me out. I shop at MOM's and they have biodegradable bags for produce. I prefer paper but I need handles.

Also, the price of the bag is in the price of the purchases. I don't like paying twice. Why should I? I don't need another tax.