More ideas for revenue enhancement (combined with glorious social engineering for the greater good of all the peoples and trees and civil order):
- make it illegal to be in a moving motor vehicle without driver and passengers wearing a helmet, with a $100 fine per helmet-less person
- $100 fine per minute for smoking within 100 feet of a child (multiplied by the number of children in the vicinity)
- $5 fee per minute for smoking tobacco; reduced to $2 if inside your home or car (unless the windows are open)
- $20 fine for throwing recyclable waste into a landfill-bound receptacle, per 0.1 ounce
- $100 fine for taking up more than 1 parking space, per 20 minutes so parked
- $20 fine for poor parking (being within 2 inches of any line marking the parking space)
- $25 fine for failure to wash hands after using public restroom (per unwashed hand)
- $10 fine for improper hand washing after using public restroom (per improperly washed hand)
- $15 for your lips coming within 0.25 inches of a public water fountain faucet
- $5 public playground use fee per child per hour
- $25 fine for BBQing meat outdoors, per 100 calories
- $30 fine for BBQing indoors per 20 minutes
- $25 fine for consuming more than 1000 calories at any restaurant within a 4-hour period
- $100 fine for carrying an ipod, pager, cell phone, GPS device, radar detector, or any non-factory-installed audio/video device within the passenger compartment of a moving automobile
- $100 fine for having tinted auto or home windows (per pane)
- $25 fine for failure to refer to a peace officer as “officer, sir” if officer is male, or “officer” if officer is female (per peace officer so offended)
Just like the gravel driveway fine, this should be good eatin’ for the lawn order crowd.
“and if you disagree, you are an ANARCHIST!!!!11”
>>a moving motor vehicle without driver and passengers wearing a helmet
hey, Eric, someone else agrees with me.
Though I do like some of your other suggestions, too.
In fact, Boston is now on the verge of a 25 feet of a commerical establishment ban on smokers, including entrances to bars, nightclubs and restaurants. The restaurant outdoor patio ban is pending.
My other suggestion is banning all smoking in cars; the violations will be numerous and the revenue stream rather lucrative.
And...
$10 added to your yearly property taxes for every square foot exceeding government (and/or UN) specifications on allowable space per occupant in your home. This may, of course, be somewhat mitigated by a purchase of carbon credits from Crazy Al’s Carbon Credit Emporium.
Where I live, lately the garbage men have been emptying the recycle bins. The garbage truck rolls through in the morning and takes EVERYTHING, then the recycle truck comes along in the afternoon and has nothing to do.