Posted on 03/08/2013 5:22:06 PM PST by Kaslin
Oooo! I’m sending this on to the City Council in ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan.’
The Liberal heads that will be exploding will be ever-so-much FUN!
I’m not very familiar with bicycle prices, but I bet there will be a lot of them in Washington for $499.
Don’t do it, you’re just giving them new ideas.
This is not news. It's been their policy in just about every country where they come to power.
Any quality bicycle is going to be a minimum of $300 at a department store, and you probably cannot get a decent bike for anything less than $500 at an independent bike shop.
They want to tax you coming and going. The fact is that bicycle riders do pay for themselves when they ride bikes, because they are not incurring any costs to society, forvthe most part.
...and how on earth is the government going to know what you paid for a bike unless... why of course... they’ll have to mandate registration and licensing of bikes like cars. Voila! More taxes! Yay!!!
Insert Seattle joke here ----->
This is being pushed by a Republican in a snarky effort to humiliate Democrats.
“.....it is the amount of carbon exhaled by cyclists that merit them getting hit with this tax.”
Insanity!!
Shouldn’t fast walkers also pay a breathing tax.
All that yelling at sporting events... there is some more money!
I suspect that 20 year olds have greater emissions of carbon dioxide during longer lovemaking sessions.
Insanity....
You’re right it is. The question though is: Will they get it? Liberals are not that smart with their pea-sized brains
Was pulled back and the guy apologized for his statement.
I think you are correct. That’s exactly how I interpreted the action as well.
TRUE! It was a tongue in cheek comment made by conservative Ed Orcutt and the media (dumb as it is) took it wrong.
The irony is that the left loves bicycles, but they also love taxes and many see cyclists as using the roads for free.
The other irony is that while he was poking fun at global warming they all missed the point of regulation CO2.
Demonstrating absurdity by being absurd....Rush would be proud.
If you car drivers were more careful, you wouldn’t need bike lanes. :)
And if bicyclists actually obeyed traffic laws, they wouldn’t get plastered so often. Don’t even try to deny this, I work on a transportation choke point that is very popular with bicyclists. I see them blowing through red lights, stop signs, blocking traffic by riding 3-4 abreast, ignoring signs directly giving them instructions, etc... One of the greatest days I had at work was when a bicycle club was doing a ride with hundreds of militant spandex clad two wheeled fudds. A county Sheriff’s deputy was returning to town from a call and got blocked by militant two wheelers in a curvy road. He waited until a safe stretch and cited every one of them for impeding traffic. The schadenfreude was delicious listening to those metrosexual he/she’s whine about being cited.
99% of bicyclists give the others a bad name. How many stop signs and red lights do you blow through because of your clip shoes? They should have GPS trackers and be charged by the lane mile to maintain their access to roads funded by dedicated gas taxes.
True, if you are talking about the spandex wearing exhibitionists who ride in packs.
Not true, if you are talking about the occasional single rider just trying to get from point A to point B safely. Been there, done that. Too many motorists treat us all like the pack jerks even if we obey the rules of the road, ride single file and don't crowd the center line. Worst offense is that that they try to run us off the road even when there is plenty of room to pass.
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