[Diana in Wisconsin]

Best. Headline. Ever. :)

[reagan_fanatic]

This has nothing to do with ‘littering’ and everything to do with greed.

[vox_freedom]

It being SF, how about just a “butt fee” Mr. Mayor?

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“Butt Tax to Remove Butts From SF”

[Hodar]

“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.

[Sudetenland]

Huh huh, he said “butt.”

[NormsRevenge]

The Bigger the Butt,, The Bigger the Tax,, uhh,, Fee..

[fish hawk]

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.

[Winstons Julia]

How much to remove the vagrant butts from the sidewalks?

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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.

[PA Engineer]

So people will go outside the city limits to buy smokes. That is a great plan.

[mrsmel]

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.

[Political Junkie Too]

I will admit that my pet peeve is watching someone on the freeway toss their butts out the window onto the road instead of dirtying up the ashtrays in their cars.

I especially hate the night visual of seeing the smoldering butt bounce on the asphalt.

-PJ

[jessduntno]

Does Bawney Fwank know about this?

[freekitty]

This guy is dumber than you know what.

[MEGoody]

If they ever do this where I live, I’ll be emptying all my ashtrays on the city streets. Will probably throw out those McDonald’s cups too. Might as well get my money’s worth.

[5thGenTexan]

Or, "San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is encouraging smokers to buy cigarettes outside the city".

[Joe 6-pack]

Proof that this is all about money is that even filterless cigarettes will no doubt, also be taxed...

[T. P. Pole]

So, can you save your butts and turn them in to a reclaimation center and get your money back, like you do soda bottles? Might even give the homeless a way to make some money on the side. . .

[maggief]

[Secret Agent Man]

Finally this is one tax I can agree with. If there is one city in the US that needs a ‘butt tax’, it’s San Francisco.

[libertarian27]

I NEVER throw away cigarette butts - always an ashtray or field strip them.

But with this law, if I were in SanFran, I’d be collecting butts for sidewalk distribution.