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Opinion: Paper, Plastic, or Neither?

Feb 15th 2010 – 5:00AM
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(Feb. 15) -- This year, grocery shoppers in the District of Columbia -- which has a poverty rate that surpasses 19 percent and an unemployment rate that approaches 12 percent -- found themselves faced with a new tax: 5 cents on every plastic or paper bag they carry out of the store. The District Department of the...

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