Plastic bag bans are stupid and unhygienic. Not everyone drives, and not everyone carries unhygienic cloth bags around with them all the time. It's a literal nickel-and-dime tax that will hurt the poor more than anyone.
This is like arguing that requiring people to carry a photo-ID is bad because wallets are burdensome and unhygenic (?).
I also don't really understand what the "not everyone drives" point. You don't need a car to carry around reusable bags. You can even find some (for cheap) that are collapsible/compressible to the point that they fit inside a jacket pocket.
Yeah, everyone carries bags around while walking the streets of NY. Want to go on the spur of the moment to buy stuff from the drug store or grocery store? Better hold everything in your hands or spend money to buy yet another dumb bacteria-growing made-in-China "reusable bag". This crap is coming to New York in March. I say no thanks.
