Uberliberal Seattle’s rejection of the plastic bag tax should give pause to the coercive utopians that have initiated bag tax proposals around the country.

In Washington, D.C., in spite of the poorly written bag tax measure, the D.C. Council recently passed a tax of 5 cents per plastic bag.

Voters in the very blue city of Seattle, which voted for Barack Obama by more than 80 percent, recently demonstrated intellectual honesty when they voted to shoot down a bag tax law, which had been previously passed by their city council.

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