Ignoring the secondary consequences of a policy and focusing on its intended consequences is what the famous economics writer Henry Hazlitt identified as the greatest of all economic fallacies.
Well living in NJ , I do reuse the bags I’m forced to carry around, repeatedly! I don’t enjoy it but I’m apparently the kind of consumer the authors of the law had in mind.I think the law is dumb. One of the dumbest aspects of it was banning paper bags which I always liked in fact preferred and reused in several ways.
Excellent post. I was a member of the New Jersey Food Council's board when they were confronted that their heavily Democratic state legislature and governor were about to adopt legislation, like New York's, to ban single-use plastic bags and slap a tax for paper or heavier polypropylene bags. When legislators offered to share the revenue from the tax with the groceries to offset their higher costs, the deal was done. The Council was right to oppose the ban for many apparent reasons. Sadly, northern Virginia counties have followed suit.
Well living in NJ , I do reuse the bags I’m forced to carry around, repeatedly! I don’t enjoy it but I’m apparently the kind of consumer the authors of the law had in mind.I think the law is dumb. One of the dumbest aspects of it was banning paper bags which I always liked in fact preferred and reused in several ways.
Excellent post. I was a member of the New Jersey Food Council's board when they were confronted that their heavily Democratic state legislature and governor were about to adopt legislation, like New York's, to ban single-use plastic bags and slap a tax for paper or heavier polypropylene bags. When legislators offered to share the revenue from the tax with the groceries to offset their higher costs, the deal was done. The Council was right to oppose the ban for many apparent reasons. Sadly, northern Virginia counties have followed suit.