Junior Evan Schwartz, a Hatchet columnist, argues against the District’s new bag tax.

Americans have always bristled at the introduction of new taxes. We are taught that the American Revolution started as a result of unfair taxes imposed by our colonial overlords across the Atlantic, and such taxes gave birth to the concept of “Taxation without Representation.” Most of us see that phrase every day – emblazoned on the license plate of cars driving around the District. But the turn of the decade has transformed the D.C. license plate into a cruel joke, an ironic reminder that the city has become a proving ground for a strange new tax on plastic bags.