I keep hearing about a 10 cent butt tax.

I’m in favour.

How about a 5 cent gum tax. A tax on each stick or chic let of gum.

Seriously, I am in favour. Provided the tax goes directly to clean up.

I swear, in some areas, the sidewalks are paved with gum.

What ever happened to the law, no expectorating.

Maybe that should be enforced.

Or the law that requires drivers to keep both hands on the wheel. Enforce that and they wouldn’t be able to dump their ashtrays out the window, or their cardboard cups that held their milkshake that they shouldn’t have been drinking while driving.

Of course, then they would wait until they are at a red light and then open the door and dump it on the ground. Whoops, they already do that don’t they? But we have an anti littering law to cover that. Maximum fine $2,000.

Why does a law have a maximum fine? It should be minimum.

On the radio, the other day, they had a phone in about littering. One person wanted to blame it on a particular ethnic group.

Go for it. I am married to an ethnic, from Shanghai. Do you think I can train her, or her son, not to drop trash along the street?

It’s the way they do it in Shanghai. But in Shanghai they have people who sweep the streets. They also have binners who recycle – everything, no matter how small. They will take your garbage bag apart, separate its contents then put the bag on a fence. When it is dry they recycle that too.

Believe me, Shanghai is a very clean city.

Vancouver could be too if we had a; butt, gum, litter, tax and all the proceeds would go to hiring people with brooms.

However, you know, and I know, that it would just be another tax burden on the public. The funds would go to line the pockets of the politicians and the gum chewers would still be spitting on the sidewalk.