Man, gotta keep an eye on them all the time. A legislator proposes a nifty new "fee," i.e. tax:
A bill has been proposed that would have consumers paying .10 a bag for grocery bags.
If passed, the bill, introduced by northern Indiana State Representative Shelly VanDenburgh, would act as a type of tax.
According to the bill, 25% of the funds collected would go to the Indiana economic development corporation for the green industries fund, the other 75% would go to schools.
If passed, retailers would be required to have reusable bags for sale.
And a Republican who doesn't want to be left out of the fun thinks it woul be neat to give schools even more to do and today's students even less privacy:
State Senator Beverly Gard (R-Greenfield) has proposed legislation that would require school corporations to collect information on students' heights, ethnicities, ages, sex and even their weight.
Once students step on the scale their weights would be entered into a statewide data system that would help officials determine which part of the state has the most problems with obesity.
But some parents say revealing their kids BMI is TMI.
And what would the state do if it discovered one part of the state had a bigger problem with yoot obesity? Send in the fat police to confiscate Twinkies?
Do legislatures attract busybodies or turn normal people into busybodies? Little bit of both, probably.
