Absolutely true Mr. Porter, it's a middle-class comfort issue. The feigned paternalism--"it's for their own good"--is so completely nauseating. The real dirty, sleazy, vulgar people are those that pretend that the presence in the streets of people who have no home is the problem when in fact the problem is the greed of the very same people who create such ordinances. I say attack these parasites by taxing them back down to human scale. They think poor and working people are their appliances or worse,  garbage. Their arrogance is a form of violence and deserves a response in kind.