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New Jersey Plastic Bag Ban Backfires According to New Study

Anyone who actually shops for themselves saw the writing on the wall when New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a plastic bag ban into law. Suddenly, shoppers were forced to use non-woven polypropylene ‘reusable’ bags that many found so inconvenient they became the new single-use disposable plastic bag. According to a new study, whether you’re always forgetting or don’t care about the 5 or 10 cents you pay for each bag, most are ending up in New Jersey’s landfills. The bottom line is that most people are still throwing those bags away, creating more waste than prior to the bag

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Chicago Suburb’s Plan To Fund Reparations Through Marijuana Sales Tax Backfires

Chicago Suburb’s Plan To Fund Reparations Through Marijuana Sales Tax Backfires Laurel Duggan on January 9, 2023 Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, attempted to fund its racial reparations program through a tax on legal marijuana, a plan that backfired spectacularly, according to The Washington Post. The city planned to fund reparations through $10 million in marijuana taxes from three dispensaries that were expected to open beginning in 2019, but only one of those dispensaries materialized, bringing in far below the projected $500,000 to $750,000 per year in tax revenue, according to the Post. As a result, only 16 people have

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