LIberals love bag taxes

Standing up for a statewide bag tax in Maryland - The Washington Post

Despite it being a regressive tax, despite it increasing food poisonings, it still provides a feel good moment despite that plastic bags get recycled and reused.

Oh also, people stop cleaning up after their dogs as a result too.

Did you even bother to read your own link?

Americans have learned two lessons: The measures are effective at cutting litter and popularizing the reuse of bags; and industry arguments against such measures are nonsense.[...]

The evidence from the District and Montgomery is overwhelming. In the District, plastic bag use has dropped by at least half since the 5-cent tax went into effect in 2010. In Montgomery, the drop was significant — about a third — though not as sharp as in the District; however, the county collected more than $2 million from the tax last year, which will help it pay to remove litter that includes plastic bags.
 
Maybe if they taxed anal sex HIV rates would drop, eh seawytch?
 

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