New Hampshire Wants to Ban Bags While Oklahoma Just Banned ‘Bag Bans’

As New Hampshire’s Lefty-Majority pushes to inconvenience everyone to satisfy their environmental virtue-signaling insecurities, Oklahoma is protecting small-business and consumer choice. Gov. Kevin Stitt just signed a bill that prohibits towns from bans or fees for single-use plastics.

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A. As used in this section, “auxiliary container” means any bag, cup, package, container, bottle, device or other packaging that is:

1. Made of cloth, paper, plastic, including foamed or expanded plastic, cardboard, corrugated material, aluminum, glass, postconsumer recycled material or similar material including, but
not limited to, coated or laminated materials; and

2. Designed for, but not limited to, consuming, transporting, or protecting merchandise, food or beverages from, or at, a food service facility, manufacturing, distribution, further processing, or retail facility.

Only busy-body liberals make such legislative action necessary.

Thankfully, until this year, local municipalities looking to enforce pointless bag bans in the Granite State could not. New Hampshire does not grant them such authority. This session, Democrat majorities are looking to give it to them. All of it. Bags, straws, any single-use plastic. All because 90% of the plastic in the ocean comes from Africa and Asia.

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I’m not sure how New Hampshire’s 13-mile coastline contributes to the way other nations dispose of plastic but why would that matter? The same people want us to embrace the Paris Climate Accord. That scheme hamstrings American industry while our major foreign competitor skate. All for no environmental benefit even by Warmist standards.

It’s a tax on America redistributed to a world whose contribution is to take our money.

So, Oklahoma, with zero coastlines, has the right idea. Reign in the Left’s addiction to pointless environmental virtue signaling at the very real cost to consumers and business owners.

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