Says the sponsor of Brookline, Mass.’s proposed Styrofoam ban. [Boston Globe via Ira Stoll; earlier on Concord water bottle ban]
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on October 3, 2012
Says the sponsor of Brookline, Mass.’s proposed Styrofoam ban. [Boston Globe via Ira Stoll; earlier on Concord water bottle ban]
Tagged as: Boston, environment, nanny state

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Sounds like this dingbat wants to create a perfect little bubble catering to her personal health phobias. If the city wants to go about it in a rational way (no comment on the merits or drawbacks of corrective taxation in general), they should charge a styrofoam container and plastic bag fee.
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