BICYCLE RIGHTS !!!
Hat Tip to:http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?424030-PAY-TO-BREATHE-CYCLISTS-POLLUTE-BY-BREATHING-more-CO2-25-Carbon-Tax.-Runners-next
“Let’s NOT move”....and save the world !!
He owns stock in a company that manufactures re-breathers
They are need to consume more calories due to the exercising, straining the world’s food supply and driving up prices for the 3rd world populations who are barely getting by.
I hope he’s just using sarcasm to prove a point.
I think we should tax ALL exercise. Tennis, jogging, swimming, people who go to health clubs, etc. Even larger taxes for NFL and NBA. I was going to say MLB and golf but they don’t move very much.
All of these people breath TOO MUCH!
It’s hard to believe people are this stupid....harder to believe they get elected. ..
It is not entirely true that cycleists don’t pay for roads. Most of them own a car and drive on occasion. There are taxes paid on those vehicles that are not being used. Bikes also apply less road wear than cars.
There was a time when many cities had bike licensing and taxes. Mainly at times when the bicycle was a more important mode of transportation.
I ride quite a bit (4000 miles in the last year). My car is parked for most of the summer.
Would the application of a tax or license really be worth it. I would imagine that it would be costly to try to implement with so few people actually riding. I would not necessarily be opposed to it but I don’t know what true benefit would be gained.
How long can you hold your breath?
Heart rate and respiration goes up when having sex - tax that too.
A dark look into the in-f*****g-sanity of the liberal mindset. These flaming liberal POS bastards actually want to tax the air that you breathe, solely because of the money you short them by not driving! I bet any mafia member or gangbanger dreams of the kind of bullsh!t shakedown rackets that the government can get away with.
So tax politicians 100% of their salaries, for all the hot air they emit.
BICYCLE RIGHTS !!!
Respiration carries with it two products of metabolism, whether or not the human body is being exercised - carbon dioxide and water vapor. NEITHER ONE OF THESE COMPOUNDS ARE POLLUTION.
The very basis of life is the ready conversion of these two compounds into carbohydrates and free oxygen. There is, in fact, no possible situation where, in the presence of living plants, the carbon dioxide level could EVER rise high enough to render even minimal distress to animal life, and this includes human beings.
Without carbon dioxide, there would never have been any free oxygen in the atmosphere. Oxygen is the second most active element on the periodic table, and by far the most corrosive in nature. Only one element is more reactive than oxygen.
And that element is fluorine. There is just never any free fluorine, ever, for more than just a few minutes in the atmosphere, even after producing it by chemical means, because fluorine breaks down water on coming into contact, into hydrofluoric acid and nascent oxygen. Nobody has even ever SMELLED fluorine, as its effects are so deadly that it destroys the moisture in the tissues of sensory organs that detect odor. For that reason alone, perhaps there is no place in the Universe where the conversion of fluorine to fluorides could ever be the basis of life.
But oxygen can and does convert widely from oxide form to free oxygen, and is even relatively stable for a while as the oxygen gas. But in the absence of even minute amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, would soon mean there was no free oxygen, as it would be combining with just about every other element out there if there were no carbon available, and soon used up as a part of the atmosphere.
There is no escape from the simple fact - carbon dioxide is every bit as essential to our very survival as sunlight and water.
It is criminal to restrict the free production of carbon dioxide, and great harm would come in its absence.
In a just world, this statist piee of filth would have a plastic bag duct-taped over his head and thus be allowed to experience the “justice” he so craves.
I know Ed Orcutt personally and love that he is throwing this back in their faces.
Another way to put it, isn’t it time they “paid their fair share?” ;-)
For those who can’t see the sarcasm in Ed’s email;
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 20, 2013
CONTACT: Brendon Wold, Senior Information Officer – (360) 786-7698
Rep. Ed Orcutt – (360) 786-7812
House Republican transportation leader comments on House Democrat plan to make Washington state highest gas tax in the nation
‘We need to see how we can make our tax dollars go further, before we reach further into taxpayers’ pockets,’ says Orcutt
Rep. Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama, and the ranking Republican on the House Transportation Committee, issued the following statement today regarding a House Democrat proposal to make Washington state’s gas tax the highest in the nation:
“With prior tax increases, our state built an off-ramp in the wrong place, a ferry that doesn’t work well in Puget Sound and faulty pontoons that may jeopardize the new 520 Bridge project.
“Now, House Democrats want to charge Washington drivers the highest gas tax in the nation at nearly 48-cents-per-gallon, more than doubling it since 2003. When you include federal taxes, Washington drivers would be paying 66 cents in state and federal taxes for every gallon of gas they purchase.
“In addition, we need to stop paying for construction projects over a 30-year period when the jobs they create usually only last for five or ten. We can’t continue down this road of failure and lack of accountability.
“House Republicans understand there are maintenance demands and new projects needed in the future. But any debate on transportation must begin with reforms, not tax increases on struggling workers and families, and not new project lists to entice votes in the Legislature.
“The reforms needed are not just transportation reforms, but economic reforms. The reality is people can’t afford more at the pump right now – especially those out of work or who have to commute long distances because their communities have been decimated by the economy and land-use restrictions.
“Before we even entertain the idea of a gas tax increase, we want to talk about transportation and economic reforms. We will talk more about these reforms next week. If the Democrats are willing to have this discussion, we are willing to work with them.
“We need to see how we can make our tax dollars go further, before we reach further into taxpayers’ pockets.”
For more information, visit our Web site at: www.houserepublicans.wa.gov.
don’t forget farts. It can be hell not being the lead rider.
“If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.”
Y’all thought the Beatles were joking.
zombies feasting on zombies. kind of a poetic justice change.