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May 20, 2009
Gavin Newsom Taxes Butts
Posted by Dave Blount at May 20, 2009 10:29 AM
I never thought this would happen with Michelle Obama in the White House: Democrats are now taxing butts.
SAN FRANCISCO — In what he casts as an attack on litterbugs and nicotine addiction alike, Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to impose a fee on an age-old inhabitant of city streets: the cigarette butt.
The proposal, to be introduced next month to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, would add 33 cents to the cost of a pack of cigarettes, to offset the estimated $10.7 million the city spends annually removing discarded butts from gutters, drainpipes and sidewalks.
If Newscum really wants to raise money in San Franfreakshow, he ought to tax butt pirates.
We could close the deficit with a tax on BOO's caboose.
On a tip from nancz.
