A toilet paper tax makes Florida legislators into comedians—or just clowns.

The Associated Press reports that State Senator Democrat Al Lawson is proposing a 2 cent-per-roll tax on toilet paper “to pay for wastewater treatment and help small towns upgrade their sewer systems.” The proposal is ridiculed by Republicans using cute retorts.

I’m all for consumption taxes paying for benefits received, but I wonder: Are 2-ply and 3-ply rolls taxed the same? Isn’t a stopped up toilet incentive enough not to use too much T.P.? Do they plan to upgrade plumbing of the people who buy the T.P.? What about the poor? Will they have to choose between T.P. and Kleenex, paper towels (ouch?), or settle for the Arab method of using their left hand?

It seems to me that the most discreet way to put this is that this proposal is foul.