OK then, let&#x27;s say that for every plastic bag someone uses they are charged 1 million dollars.<p>Do you believe that this would &quot;price in&quot; the cost of a plastic bag? Do you believe that, given a million dollars for every bag used, the government could clean up this supposedly irreversible damage?<p>I believe it could. Not only that, I believe the price would be much less than 1 million dollars.<p>Or how about this. Let&#x27;s say they instead used that money to fix a completely different problem that is also causing permanent damage, and is equal or worse than the damage caused by plastic bags.<p>There is always a price. There are always trade-offs and opportunity costs.