Hazlitt's Lesson Restated: New Jersey's Disastrous Ban on Single-Use Plastic

Hazlitt’s Lesson Restated: New Jersey’s Disastrous Ban on Single-Use Plastic

Tags: Bureaucracy and Regulation, Progressivism

10/11/2022 Georg Grassmueck

Virtue-signaling politicians in New Jersey have banned single-use plastic bags, claiming to “help the environment.” They need to read Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson instead.

Original Article: “Hazlitt’s Lesson Restated: New Jersey’s Disastrous Ban on Single-Use Plastic”

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