It’s not a joke, one lawmaker wants to tax plastic grocery bags:

US Rep Jim Moran, who co-sponsored the bottle deposit bill, also introduced on April 22 the Plastic Bag Reduction Act of 2009 which would place a 5 cent fee on grocery bags, dry cleaning bags, take-out food bags, retail bags and service station bags, starting January 1.

Under the proposal, that fee would escalate to 25 cents starting January 1, 2015.

Once again, government is removing choice, even the minor choice of “paper or plastic.”