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"Have you ever bought a fake designer bag? If so, you may want to think twice the next time someone on a street corner tries to sell you a fake Louis Vuitton or Marc Jacobs. A new law has been proposed that will make purchasing fake bags illegal and could lead to a fine or even jail time! A bill was introduced last year in New York City to discourage women from buying fake designer bags, and a councilwoman is now trying to push it through. If this law is passed, women who buy counterfeit bags (and are caught) could be fined up to $1,000 and face jail time. Before the bill can be passed, it has to go in front of a public hearing that will likely be scheduled in the next few months. The counterfeit bag business isn&amp;#x27;t regulated, and workers (often in third-world countries) are paid terrible wages while being exposed to unsafe working conditions. What&amp;#x27;s even worse: You could be supporting child labor and organized crime. It&amp;#x27;s been reported that more than 7 percent of the country&amp;#x27;s annual world trade (more than $600 billion worth) is a result of counterfeit goods. Have you bought a fake bag? Will this proposed law make you think twice about buying another one? Photo: Mark Leibowitz"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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