Madferret said:
Where does that nickel go anyways?
allegedly, to the environmental folks. Funny thing though, we charge people 5 cents each for those stupid bags, but when I see the invoicing from the supplier, we actually pay about 7 cents each for them (plus shipping! and taxes) in the first place. I think they're considered 'cost of doing business' expenses (which translates into 'business writeoffs' for the parent company, certainly not us) and then a couple times a year, they write a nice fat cheque (fat to me, probably a drop in the bucket to the company) to WWF or some such and say 'look at us, good corporate citizen!'. *rolls eyes*
I'd buy the whole 'it's a bag tax' if I saw it being rung in the way we do taxes, where it's accountable and remitted to the appropriate folks at month's end (or whenever). I'm not sure how they're accounted for though.