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Liberals, in their overzealous concern over bodies of water and the inhabitants therein, have managed to kill people who would have lived had they been able to use plastic bags instead of being forced at gunpoint to use reusable bags.
The "green" cloth conveyances can easily spread bacteria and cause disease, and have done exactly that with confirmed instances of E Coli infection occurring in close correlation to the beginning of the ban in San Francisco.
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Jonathan Klick and Joshua Wright, who are law professors at the University of Pennsylvania and George Mason University, respectively, have done a more recent study on the public-health impact of plastic-bag bans. They find that emergency-room admissions related to E. coli infections increased in San Francisco after the ban. (Nearby counties did not show this increase.) And this effect showed up as soon as the ban was implemented. (“There is a clear discontinuity at the time of adoption.”) The San Francisco ban was also associated with increases in salmonella and other bacterial infections. Similar effects were found in other California towns that adopted such laws. More Deaths
Klick and Wright estimate that the San Francisco ban results in a 46 percent increase in deaths from foodborne illnesses, or 5.5 more of them each year. They then run through a cost-benefit analysis employing the same estimate of the value of a human life that the Environmental Protection Agency uses when evaluating regulations that are supposed to save lives. They conclude that the anti-plastic-bag policies can’t pass the test -- and that’s before counting the higher health-care costs they generate.
Keep this in mind next time a plastic bag ban is considered in your neck of the woods, and also remember it when you are tempted to vote for someone with a "D" after their name.
Liberals, in their overzealous concern over bodies of water and the inhabitants therein, have managed to kill people who would have lived had they been able to use plastic bags instead of being forced at gunpoint to use reusable bags.
The "green" cloth conveyances can easily spread bacteria and cause disease, and have done exactly that with confirmed instances of E Coli infection occurring in close correlation to the beginning of the ban in San Francisco.
Keep this in mind next time a plastic bag ban is considered in your neck of the woods, and also remember it when you are tempted to vote for someone with a "D" after their name.
Vote for someone else - and save your life.
Liberalism kills people - shouldn't it be banned?
Plastic bags are not "banned" in my neck of the People's Republic yet, but I voluntarily stopped using them years ago. No E Coli yet, winger whack jobs , but I'll kept ya posted
(PS- you can WASH the cloth bags, ya know...)
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