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1` The Conservative Forum for Hawaii
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28 January 2011 aM.
Regarding: proposed plastic bag ban
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Dear County Council and Mayor Kenoi:
Once again Mr. Hoffman's Hawaii Island proposed plastic bag ban has arisen from the dead like
a vampire from the grave. As it never received the necessary stake through the heart, but only a
mild burial, it is now in it's 3` or 4 blood seeking revival before this council.
The essential concern of the Conservative Forum for Hawaii, and most voters as well if you would
bother to actually ask our approval before micro - managing our lives, is that the Council is
exceeding its authority that the people have given you.
In essence, we have given you the authority to take our money in taxes and fees, figure out how
to spend them, and forbid us from doing certain actions supposedly for our own good.
It is the last point that has gotten out of hand. You have already forbidden more than enough
for our lives to run smoothly. How would you like it if there were a referendum and the people
voted to prohibit just council members from using plastic bags? Would you feel that we were
being arrogant, too intrusive, that we should not be playing that role? That the issue was not that
important that we should have laws about how you live your life in these small details? That there
were more important issues to spend time and energy on?
Well, that is how we feel when you do it to us on this and similar points, over and over and over.
When are you just going to leave us alone to live our lives in peace? Just because Maui and
Kauai and San Francisco and other progressive enclaves have done it does not mean we have to
be so foolish also.
This has got to stop. At a minimum, the people should bg asked by referendum for our
permission before further restricting how we want to live our lives
In addition, this particular ban will raise the cost of living for everyone, and during the worst
economic times in decades.
Just once we would like to have the council make our lives easier, not harder.
Just once we would like to have the council make it less expensive to live, not more
expensive.
All this bill will accomplish (other than the smug satisfaction of knowing that people have been
forced to behave more to the likings of a special few), will be to raise the cost of living for
everyone and change the ratio of paper bag litter to plastic bag litter, but not the amount of litter.
And if a complete (and expensive) environmental impact statement is ever performed, as is
required by law, the total environmental impact will be revealed to be worse not better. This has
already been proven in other areas of the nation, if you'd look it up.
Do the right thing and kill this useless intrusion in our lives for good. Take the high road of
enlightened wise government, not the easy road of being busybody micromanagers. Then you will
be respected instead of resented.
Aloha
Walter Moe
President
966 -5420 forumhawaii @gmail.com
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Ref. Date FEB 1 2011