For today’s Commentary, we feature a great column from Jonathan Garthwaite, the Editor-In-Chief of Townhall.com, a great website for conservative thought…
NANNY STATE, U.S.A.
This week San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban plastic grocery bags from city supermarkets and drug stores. San Francisco generates an estimated 180 million plastic bags each year, and the city counsel wants them gone. Grocery shoppers will have to find an alternative within six months.
Reducing the number of nonbiodegradable plastic bags tangled in neighborhood streets and piling up in landfills for hundreds of years is a noble undertaking, but San Francisco’s government imposed bag ban is one more in a series of nanny state edicts from government upon the governed.
What’s a "nanny state"? If you want a dictionary definition, "A government perceived as having excessive interest in or control over the welfare of its citizens, especially in the enforcement of extensive public health and safety regulations."
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