A new study shows that 80 percent of residents now use fewer plastic bags since the law was enacted in 2010.

Some legislators in Montgomery County want the five-cent bag tax to only apply in food stores.

How did D.C.’s five-cent bag tax come to be? This video explains it.

D.C. saw revenue from the five-cent bag tax drop in 2012, but don’t worry—that’s a good thing.

After a Baltimore woman shopping a Radio Shack near Washington refused to pay the five-cent fee for plastic bags, she asked for a refund and received a receipt calling her an “ugly itch” from “ghettohood.”

First, it was the disposable bag tax. Now, the potential expansion of laws prohibiting smoking in common areas of buildings, a similar version of which the District made law last year. Which D.C. code will you be copying next next, MoCo?

The District’s bag tax has often been hailed as a massive success — so much so that our neighbors in Montgomery County citing it when installing their own version of a similar five-cent fee on disposable bags. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t scofflaws out there.

The Post reports that the Montgomery County Council has voted 8-1 in favor of instituting a five-cent bag tax in the county.

On the surface, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett’s proposal to institute a tax on single-use shopping bags sounds a whole lot like the one that we’ve grown so accustomed to inside the ol’ D. of C. It’s the same amount per bag (five cents), there will be exemptions (like pharmacies, farmers markets and takeout joints) and revenues from the tax will go toward waterway cleanup and preservation. Of course, the one thing that Leggett’s proposal has that the District’s didn’t is a competing bill, one that could find Montgomery County out of step with the remainder of the state.

Whenever D.C.’s five-cent bag tax is brought up, those opposed to it cite the tax’s supposed strain on businesses as a reason why the tax shouldn’t be imposed. One particularly memorable opponent even made the ridiculous assumption that the tax would force D.C. residents to take their retail dollars to Virginia and Maryland. But a new survey conducted by the Alice Ferguson Foundation appears to take most of the steam out of that argument.