COVID19 Factors We Should Consider/Current Events

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ing-groceries/

Out here in Trump Jersey, our benevolent legislators banned grocery stores from offering any free disposable bags at check out in May 2021. Paper and plastic were gone. Now all we have are those terrible bags for 3 cents that are good for precisely 125 uses. Almost all bags are gone everywhere from all stores, although restaurants figured out a way around it, still offering mostly paper bags.

It’s was done ostensibly for “environmental” reasons. Too many plastic bags in rivers they said. What really probably happened was the supermarket co-ops lobbied Trenton because the overhead cost of bags was too high combined with food shortages in a very crowded suburban market. Environmentalism was a cheap excuse. The State is responsible for trash cleanup and the maintenance of waterways. Private property doesn’t have a litter problem.

[Mark Rippetoe]