Colorado's grocery bag fee is Polis' hidden tax (Letters)

Bag fee is a hidden tax on Coloradans

Founding Father John Dickinson, a Pennsylvanian who participated in writing the Declaration of Independence, joined his colleagues in condemning England’s Stamp Act. He termed it “… an authority expressly claimed and exerted to impose duties on these colonies — a dangerous innovation.”

Gov. Jared Polis’s signature on the legislation that outlawed plastic grocery bags, allegedly to save the environment, rings with similarity. California, Washington and Oregon have similarly banned plastic soda straws (Really? Soda straws?), considered a major step in the greening of the West Coast.

The main accomplishment in Colorado has been to burden citizens with significant inconvenience and a new tax (bypassing input by voters) that enriches Colorado cities and