New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has faced some tough questions from state lawmakers about the city’s impending plastic bag fee.
The Democrat traveled to Albany on Monday for a state budget hearing at the Capitol. Legislators peppered him with questions about the fee that’s set to kick in next month.
The plan would impose a fee of 5 cents or more on single-use plastic shopping bags. It’s designed to encourage the use of reusable bags and decrease litter.
But some lawmakers considered it punitive for poor and middle-class residents already struggling with the Big Apple’s high cost of living.
One lawmaker from de Blasio’s own party held up a dozen eggs and a loaf of bread and angrily told the mayor that everyday New Yorkers are “overtaxed, overfined, overticketed.”
(AP)
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Love it! About time this foolishness comes to an end
I just can’t understand why YWN is afraid to state the name of the Law Maker from Deblasios own party is? I don’t think that the Honorable and Hard Working Senator Felder has what to be ashamed of that they can’t state it openly on YWN
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If it whould have been david greenfeld. It whould have had a extra news article.
Biased media By us to