Democrats always think they are smarter than everyone else, which causes them to delusionally fantasize that they have the divine right to tell everyone else how to live. Of course, the truth is that Democrats are the stupidest people on the planet, so they should do everyone else a big favor and crawl under a rock.
SHOCKER! LA Times Reports California's 'War on Plastic Bag Use Seems to Have Backfired'
http://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/02/14/shocker-la-times-reports-californias-war-on-plastic-bag-use-seems-to-have-backfired-n2392925
In 2014 the state of California banned single-use carryout grocery bags:
The statewide ban on single-use carryout bags prohibits most grocery stores, large retail stores with a pharmacy, and convenience stores that sell food and alcoholic beverages from providing their customers with bags designed for a single use only, unless those bags are made with recycled paper. Instead, these stores generally must provide customers recycled paper bags or certified reusable grocery bags and must charge their customers at least 10 cents for each bag. The text of the bag ban statute can be found on the California Legislative Information page.
Fast forward a decade, and, as with every other great idea from the progressive Left, they didn't think it through:
The Democrats didn't think it through?! Nah ... surely not.
Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) ~ Another green policy backfire:
California's plastic bag tax has increased the weight plastic bags thrown away by almost 30%.
Since bag taxes were enacted, plastic bags have been made thicker to qualify as being "reusable."
But consumers discard them anyway.
So Californians are being taxed to create more plastic waste.
http://latimes.com/california/newsletter/2024-02-13/plastic-bag-ban-loopholes-essential-california
Well, color us shocked!
Los Angeles Times (@latimes) ~ California's war on plastic bag use seems to have backfired. Lawmakers are trying again.
http://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-02-12/californias-war-on-plastic-bag-use-seems-to-have-backfired
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, again, and expecting different results.
Do "progressive" leaders ever do anything that doesn't backfire?
It's just like them putting up these stupid signs ...
... and then being horrified that criminals bring guns onto school property, anyway.
Los Angeles Times (@latimes) ~ According to a report by the consumer advocacy group CALPIRG, 157,385 tons of plastic bag waste was discarded in California the year the law was passed. By 2022, however, the tonnage of discarded plastic bags had skyrocketed to 231,072 — a 47% jump.
Nobody fails at thinking things through quite like the California Democrats.
Department Of Injustice (@DepartmentOfIn7) ~ Name a problem Los Angeles democrats were able to solve. That's right! Nothing.
Making things worse while wasting taxpayer money is what they do best.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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