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BY THE EDITORIAL PAGE STAFF OF THE FREE LANCE-STAR LAST YEAR, the General Assembly decided to let each locality in Virginia decide whether or not to tax those ubiquitous plastic bags most people use to haul home groceries and the myriad other things they buy as a way to reduce their use. So the City of Fredericksburg is now considering a 5-cent tax on each bag. There are both pluses and minuses to this proposal, but City Council members should remember that sometimes fixing one problem just creates another. On the plus side, plastic bags have a tendency to wind up on the shoulders of roads, in local waterways, and elsewhere due to the fact that they are “free” and very lightweight. Even some of the most conscientious non-litterers have accidentally launched these bags into the environment on a windy day and didn’t bother to run after them. It remains to be seen whether paying a 5-cent tax on each bag would change that equation, but that seems unlikely.

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