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he would do better to use impose a deposit on the butts, similar to the deposit on cans & bottles.

that way the homeless would collect them for redemption and that would save the city the clean up fees.

hey - this is actually a good idea........

yea - thats win-win, Blue

income for the homeless, one of SF's favored citizens, & savings on street clean up!
and it would create jobs at the collection centers

Put a one penny tax on fudge packing and California can eliminate their income tax after a month and have a cash surplus!

Here Michelle be, whuppin up on Obama when he loses in 2012!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Ox4a5sgkY

You guys are too nice! The drunks and junkies will take the money and guess what? But s'more junk and T-bird.

Make 'em clean up the place and give 'em a night in a tent and some free gov't cheese!

Leave it to SAN FRANFREAKSHOW to prepose something like this i meaan its not a stupid ban of plastic grocerie bags its this poppycock

Elimination of $300K+ a year MUNI heads (Like MTA's Nathaniel Ford the highest paid city official.) wouldn't be in order instead now would it Gavin Nuisance?

San Fran's budget is in such a mess, they could tax all the smokes at 5X the current rate and it still won't cover the shortfall. Hell they even taxed plastic shopping bags already!

"Whether you like it or not!"

F-U, Newsom. Scary that he might be our next Governor...

Oh Henry, after yesterday, I really doubt that. Chin up, now.

Anyway, everybody in NY now just goes to an Indian reservation or buys them from the Ukraine.

After this tax is implemented, any cigarette smoker who bothers to consider this butt tax at all will think, "Hey, as long as I'm paying the government to pick up my butts, I may as well throw them wherever I please."

Result: nastier sidewalks and poorer citizens.

Sotosoroto,


No way. Smokers don't give a damn where they throw their butts and nothing will change their habits. You can find butts anywhere: out in the woods in autumn/outside a tracheotomy clinic.
Smokers treat everything like an ashtray & want everyone to pay up that they themselves are degenerate losers with no control or character.
Taxing something (anything/everything) is just a liberal knee-jerk that won't do a thing to change the oblivious behavior of the smoke morons...I'd prefer a Guiliani type of fine or maybe a goonsquad beatdown on anyone caught tossing a butt.
(Same for public spitters, sneezers, coughers and nose-blowers in restaurants.)

Extra taxes for butt clean up is a disingenuous ploy as are almost all liberal initiatives, but I appreciate the point:
We've gotten smoke out of most public places, now maybe the next step should be to clean up after the suicidal poisoners.

what next? food packaging? dry cleaner bags? bakery boxes? all THOSE things are bad for people and the environment...just sayin'...

back to Michele-----------

The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or so I have read

My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo

Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?

I met her on Monday, 'twas my lucky bun day
You know what I mean
I love her each weekday, each velvety cheek day
You know what I mean

My love gun's loaded and she's in my sights
Big game is waiting there inside her tights, yeah

Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about mud flaps, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?

My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo

Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?

GAVIN NEWSROM IS A REAL BUTTHEAD

Hehehehe, my friend Butthead, resents {snort} {snort} this mockery of his name.

blue, that's an excellent idea.

HYUK,HYUK,HYUK,SQUAWK SQUAW SQUAWK COUGH,COUGH,HACK HACK HACK AAAACCCHHHOOOO SNIFF

I guess a tax on butts means Rosie O'Donnell won't move to San Fran anytime soon. She could single-handedly support the whole mutant infested city.

Fiberal for a conservative you sure sound like a libacrit. Not all smokers are morons and not all are litterbugs. Also you seem to relish government telling a business owner how he or she can run their business. That's not very conservative either.It sounds to me like you are quick to turn to fascism if the cause fits your agenda. Be careful using such a big paintbrush you might get some on you.