Plastic bag bans help nanny-staters, not the environment

If you favor higher costs, damaging the environment, and dropping the regulatory boom unnecessarily on everything in sight, then plastic bag bans are right up your alley.

A new study put out by the National Center for Policy Analysis lays out the damage done by plastic bag bans supported by nanny-staters who deem it their sovereign duty to regulate every aspect of Americans’ lives. And the results aren’t pretty.