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[โ€“] [email protected] 81 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I wish we had a plastic tax. Everything is wrapped in so much unnecessary plastic.

[โ€“] Frog 27 points 6 days ago (6 children)

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 ๐Ÿคก.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

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

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