Disabled placards proliferate

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

The number of disabled parking placards in California has more than doubled during the past decade, with 1 issued for every 16 residents.

San Francisco officials recently cited the placards as one reason the city doesn't collect more money from its parking meters. People who use them don't have to feed meters.

The proliferation in placards has occurred for several reasons, including an aging population and a liberal definition of the disabilities that qualify for the special parking privilege, said Mike Miller, a spokesman for the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

The John Rawls philosophy breeds people trying to get around the system.