Trolling through America’s gutters for new sources of funding:
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.
Ok, someone tell me how they figured that cigarette butts cost that much to be removed. Bonus question: Can San Francisco do anything else to make themselves the freak show of American politics?
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