Chewing Gum Tax

(London, England) It seems that Brits are not properly spitting out their chewing gum and the politicians are preparing to do something about it. Two solutions to the 'problem' are being considered at present. First is a tax on chewing gum to ostensibly pay for cleaning up the used gum. Second is an effort to classify spent chewing gum as litter and thereby make it a criminal littering offense to spit it out. As a littering offense, fines can be levied to ostensibly help clean the gum up.

Personally, I don't buy that a 'problem' is going to be solved because this whole effort looks like another blatant attempt by tax-and-spend politicians to confiscate money from the public. Just watch. Despite whether taxes and/or fines are levied, the 'problem' with Brits spitting out their chewing gum will not change.