• Frog@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    NJ had a single use plastic bag tax. To get around it companies increased the thickness of plastic bags and gave it for free. Apparently the thickness is what separated a single use bag with a reusable one. Politicians are clowns 🤡.

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      2 years ago

      It’s supposed to be a game of cat and mouse, but right now the cat isn’t even trying. I think what’s needed is some sort of ‘living legislation’ that constantly updates to close loopholes that stakeholders find in it. Iirc this should be possible in common law systems with deliberately vague laws whose interpretation keeps getting updated by court cases.

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        1 year ago

        What if we injected a little bit of plastic into the brains of big plastic executives every time the plastic in the ocean increased a measurable amount?

      • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 years ago

        Wasn’t that the idea behing the Chevron doctrine? Leave the specifics up to experts rather than bamboozling Congresscritters about details.