10 Negative Externality "POOP Bags"

 

• What is an  example of a negative externality that interests you (be very specific in your response*)? I brought up discarded poop bags in my last discussion. I guess you can say they interests me as a negative externality, on a disgusted level. People don't typically leave poop bags where they live why do they leave them anywhere else and what goes through their heads? Nothing obviously. 
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• Could the problem be solved via negotiation?  I do not believe it is possible to negotiate a solution to this problem. Dog owners appear to feel there right as a dog owner absolves them from responsibility. They want to be able to bring them into restaurants, stores, concerts and air planes without concern of the effect that may have on someone. They leave poop bags hanging on trees, at trail heads even on remote mountain tops. It appears they feel it is not there problem and when confronted they immediately become defensive. Derelict pet ownership represents moral decline in this country. Idiocracy 2: continued moral decay will have a scene where people swim in a pool of multi color poop bags.
• Do you favor regulation to solve this externality?  I am not a big fan of regulation and since  a $1000 fine already exists for littering it would appear this regulation does not work.  I am not sure if I have ever heard of someone actually getting fined for littering. A case for enforcement could be made but at what cost. Would the community be willing to pay to employee undercover poop bag cops following dog owners to intercept the owner in the act of discarding their pink bagged treasure. Are dog owners who leave poop bags bothered by poop bags or are they immune to them all together? 
• Would you regulate your example via a tax or via a rule?  Why do you prefer one solution over the other? Because of the fact that the current fine for littering apparently is unenforceable littering fine does not work. Maybe a clean up tax for vet visits or a tax on your trip to pet smart where a poop disposal tax is collected upon check out. Non pet owners should not have to pay for this level of offense and disrespect. This tax may offset the cost of clean up or enforcement but an arrant put bag along the Colorado Trail is still an eye sore and disrespectful.