California Can’t Resist Imposing Its Own Idiotic Plastic-Bag Ban

For the last two years, New Jersey has had the dubious honor of being home to the dumbest new policy fad in America. It has spent that time clinging to a progressive reform so rigid, imperious, and counterproductive that you’d think no state would be pig-headed enough to pursue it. But apparently, California just couldn’t abide this challenge to its primacy as the most witless state in the union.

“California is banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery store checkouts under legislation that [Governor] Gavin Newsom signed on Sunday,” Axios reported. Newsom’s signature “honors the intent of a ban on single-use bags” the state passed into law ten years ago, but that included what one bag-banning lawmaker denounced as a “loophole” that “allowed stores to provide consumers with thicker plastic bags at checkout.”