Letter: Tax on recycling carpet will rise even more with this bill

San Jose's Kansen Chu authored 729 which takes power from an effective private sector-led carpet recycling program.

Tax on recycling carpet will
rise even more with this bill

When will Sacramento bureaucrats stop with the taxes? As a small business carpet retailer in San Jose, I see firsthand how the raising of taxes (i.e., fees) negatively impacts both the consumer and my business’s bottom-line.

Assembly Bill 729, authored by Kansen Chu, D-San Jose, takes power away from an effective private sector-led carpet recycling program and gives to unelected state bureaucrats the unconstrained authority to raise fees on new carpet.

Consumers already pay $.35 per square yard, which helps support the program’s objectives of diverting carpet from landfills. If AB 729 becomes law, we will see this tax rise even more.

Our state is becoming less and less affordable. I say enough is enough!

Patsy Chan
San Jose

 

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