You are correct, but you can say the same thing about the tobacco tax and the current alcohol tax. The new taxation methods increased the tax on cheap alcohol. But sometimes, the national benefit is worth having a regressive tax. There have been too many cases of violence among teens where alcohol has been involved, so if the poor have to pay more for Arak, it is worth it. And the health care system has to pay for all the tobacco related illnesses, so smokers should pay for it.

As for the actual bag issue, I’m against arbitrary laws, even if it is better for the environment. Quite a few businesses have already started charging for bags and encourage people to reuse them on future purchases, and I commend the idea. But that has to be a corporate policy and not a law. You can give government incentives for stores that implement the idea, but you shouldn’t make it a law.

And Moderator, please change Yair Peretz to Amir Peretz!!!