Plastic Bag Tax Puts Shopper Over the District Line

The D.C. Council's 5-cent tax on plastic bags is supposed to reduce the number of shoppers choosing plastic in the District ["Paper or Plastic? D.C. Council Votes for 5-Cent Tax on Both," Metro, June 3]. That strategy is working with me: From now on, I'm shopping in Montgomery County.

For 11 years, I have spent about $200 a week at my local Safeway. I choose plastic bags because I find it easier to handle my groceries in several smaller bags. And each week, I dutifully return those same bags to Safeway for recycling. I know where the plastic bags I use are ending up, and it's not the Anacostia River.

Now, the council wants to tax me for doing the right thing all along. No thanks. I only hope Montgomery County doesn't get the same brilliant idea.

KEVIN P. MORISON

Washington