Bill to cut plastic will make New Yorkers pay more for food.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning with us is Senator Georgia Burrello, New York State Senate, upstate, So getting the pulse of what’s going on upstate New York and the rest of the state. Well, Congressman Senator Barrello tell us E give us an updated what’s going on? Is the budget sign? Is it all done?

0:22 Done done? Or is it still open items?

0:25 Speaker 2 Well, the budget’s done. But now we’re in that end of session time right now where we are going to see some of the crazy stuff come forward in the last couple of weeks here of our of our Senate session and state legislature session, and we saw some already this week we had we addressed something of the Extended

0:42 Producer Responsibility EPR bill, which on the surface sounds like a good idea. We want to reduce the amount of plastic waste that we that we have. However, this bill, like everything else New York, has to go far beyond what anyone ever else has done, including California and Europe, and create such drastic mandates that they just cannot be achieved.

1:05 And what it’s going to mean is it’s going to mean that the people of New York State are going to suffer higher prices, less access to affordable food, and being able to keep food safe with the basic classic items that we know every day are required, even something as simple as surround wrap cling wrap on top of

1:24 your food to keep it safe. So that’s the problem with this bill. You know, New York is constantly in this battle trying to prove that we’re the most progressive, but that always turns into us creating these regulations that go beyond common sense, go beyond trying to solve the problem, and just trying to prove that we’re the most radical.

1:42 And that’s what this Extended Producer Responsibility Act will do for New York State should it be taken up in the Assembly.

1:49 Speaker 1 Well, I mean there’s so many things going on. The items that were me about the most is a what Secretary Kennedy is working about making sure chemicals are out of our foods. The other thing we’re concerned about is is drinking water out of plastic bottles and how are we going to how are we going to treat that?

2:13 And the third one that I’m worried about is is safety in our streets and can our kids walk around safety or are we going to have more criminals in the streets, and how do we handle the fourteen year olds that goes around shooting people.

2:30 Speaker 2 Well, that’s the truth, you know. And one of the things that was brought up in this EPR builds is you know, you know the safety and health of our children. Well, our children are more at risk walking down the street in New York City than they are, you know, drinking out of a plastic bottle. To be quite blunt, New

2:43 York State continues to pass these radical pro criminal policies and that’s where that’s where our children are most at risk, at senseless violence that that unfortunately the New York State legislature and Governor Hokle have done little to nothing to address.

3:00 So you’re right, as far as you know, the plastics and our food and then toxins, I agree one hundred percent. We wanted to reduce those as much as possible. That is a national strategy because if all you’re doing is putting in a senseless mandate on New York State manufacturers and producers and sellers, they’re just going to simply not

3:20 They’re going to raise the price in order to meet that mandate for the people of New York State. The people in New York State are just going to go elsewhere to get those products. And there’s going to be a lot of exceptions that are made in order to make sure that we don’t shut down businesses and kill

3:33 jobs here in New York State. So in the end, it’s going to be nothing but a virtue signaling boondoggle that’s going to cost the lowest income people among us the most.

3:42 Speaker 1 I agree with you one hundred percent. We just want to make our citizens healthier and to live longer. And crime. I don’t understand some of the Democrats that are objecting to us deplorting criminals.

4:01 Speaker 2 Yeah, that’s a that’s a great point and certainly something that is probably most evident in New York City. We continued to see, uh, these you know, single men that have came to New York with no intention of working, no intention of being productive, and in fact came here with nefarious purposes. The gang members, people that are that

4:21 have you know, that have that are wanted in other countries for things like, you know, like child abuse, sex trafficking, gang members. Uh, you know, we saw some of the violent acts that have occurred, and what are we doing in New York State. We’re protecting those folks. We’re making it some kind of a political uh, you know, pawn

4:39 piece that’s being played to say that we’re going to support violent criminals, gang members, human traffickers because we think Donald Trump is a bad person. And that’s that’s been the Democrats’ stance. They want to try to trump proof New York. What they should be do. We should be doing is making New Yorkers safer, and that should include

4:57 ensuring that we are deporting the violent criminals that came here to take advantage of the people of New York State. And the fact that my Democrat colleagues, the governor, and so many New York City elected officials are doubling down on these dangerous policies that are costly for New Yorkers, both financially and for our public safety is a travesty

5:17 and it needs to end.

5:19 Speaker 1 Thank you so much for coming on, Senator. Thank you for telling to be the people of the New York State the truth, and we’ll catch up with you again real soon.

5:29 Speaker 2 Thank you as well, sir, Thank you for keeping everybody informed.