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San Francisco's Mayor To Impose Cigarette Butt Fee
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| May 19, 2009
| Julie Farby
Posted on 05/19/2009 1:47:49 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Best. Headline. Ever. :)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
This has nothing to do with ‘littering’ and everything to do with greed.
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:49:13 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(When you put Democrats in charge, stupid things happen)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
It being SF, how about just a “butt fee” Mr. Mayor?
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:50:35 PM PDT
by
vox_freedom
(If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
“Butt Tax to Remove Butts From SF”
To: chuck_the_tv_out
“San Francisco - where they tax your butts.”
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:53:10 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
(The Porkulus brought us economic swine flu.)
To: vox_freedom
you beat me to it... tax the rumpriders...
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:53:33 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
“The Law of Unintended Consequences”
If I am punished by a fine, for a crime I have not yet committed - then I am fully entitled to commit that crime at any time I deem fit. So, whatever percentage of smokers who do conscientiously put their cigarette butts in the trash, and are still fined - will now feel compelled to toss their butts indiscriminately. I know I would.
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:54:08 PM PDT
by
Hodar
(Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
To: reagan_fanatic
And a lot of the problem is caused by many people in this country who are pigs.
Was sitting on my porch a while back and a lady driving down the street stuck her arm out the window and dropped a chicken meal box with the bones. As I shouted “Hey” the drink came flying out.
Biggest eyesore is those plastic shopping bags. Hanging off tree branches, fences, dragging along under cars and blowing down the street.
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:55:03 PM PDT
by
PeteB570
(NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:55:22 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Partial-birth abortions are state sanctioned torture/murder.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
The Bigger the Butt,, The Bigger the Tax,, uhh,, Fee..
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:55:55 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: Hodar
I’m that way, too. Tell me that I CAN’T do something, or am not ALLOWED to do something, I WILL find a way to do it. ;)
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:56:08 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
So when SF maintenance men and clean up and garbage crews come across a cigarette butt, they pick up everything else but leave the butts for the special Buttcrew. And that is why the tax, to pay for this special crew that they must have. OR, the other guys pick up everything including the butts and this is nothing more than a greedy way of raising taxes. I'm betting on the latter.
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:56:44 PM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: xcamel
Imo, way too much interest in butts in SF.
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:58:15 PM PDT
by
JPG
To: Enterprise; windcliff
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:58:53 PM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(The black man is keeping me down!)
To: PeteB570
The young skank...I’m sorry, teenage girl who got herself knocked up and spends most of her time laying around, getting fat and hanging around with her friends playing loud music and being generally obnoxious drove off the other day leaving her Coke glass on the street. I went over and tossed it onto her parents lawn. Let them clean it up.
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:59:05 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Boy Scouts-Developing Leaders in a World of Followers.)
To: JPG
Bertha, Bella, and Basheba Butt even
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:59:06 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: reagan_fanatic
This has nothing to do with littering and everything to do with greed.
I can only imagine the ingenious ways the gob’mt is going to pay the trillions off - fine for sneezing and not covering your mouth, not mowing your lawn at the predetermined height, parking 1 “ to far from the curb, not picking up your newspaper from the lawn the day it was delivered, having a “I got your change” bumper sticker on your car - the list is endless.
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posted on
05/19/2009 1:59:57 PM PDT
by
Bitsy
To: Diana in Wisconsin
How much to remove the vagrant butts from the sidewalks?
My uncle says San Fran is not fit for kids. They were walking in public and a vagrant whipped it out and peed in a garbage can.
Well, at least he used the can.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
So people will go outside the city limits to buy smokes. That is a great plan.
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posted on
05/19/2009 2:00:05 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
But this is not the first time Mayor Newsom has signaled a readiness to legislate health
Well since he's so agreeable to the notion of "legislating health", you'd think he'd want to do his share in eliminating the spread of HIV/AIDS by outlawing places where queers gather for sodomy, and arresting them when performing same in public at their "pervert parades", for all the world to see. I have tried to "hate the sin love the sinner" but it's getting more and more difficult when the "sinner" defiantly revels in his sin, nay, wants to make decent people outlaws for opposing it.
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posted on
05/19/2009 2:00:54 PM PDT
by
mrsmel
(Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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