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RaindogT

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Article// Orcutt said a bike tax makes sense because currently drivers are the ones paying for roads and for the bike lanes on them. Cyclists, on the other hand, don't pay for roads because they don't pay a gas tax "or any transportation tax // Article

bicyclists, energy conscious liberals (read: prius drivers), enviro-loons (read: the queers who don't drive suv's for vanity's sake.), etc. If you aren't running erands in your Hummer H2, you are screwing the system! Fvcking welfare queens!


Also (just for the hell of it) What was that most special of special republican mantras? Oh yes, "No new taxes" (unless it is for something that won't affect us as a party). incredulous.
 
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nyhc00

nyhc00

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I had to double check to make sure this wasn't from The Onion. Holy crap, the inmates are running the asylum up in Washington.
 
jonKranked

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RaindogT said:
Article// Orcutt said a bike tax makes sense because currently drivers are the ones paying for roads and for the bike lanes on them. Cyclists, on the other hand, don't pay for roads because they don't pay a gas tax "or any transportation tax // Article

bicyclists, energy conscious liberals (read: prius drivers), enviro-loons (read: the queers who don't drive suv's for vanity's sake.), etc. If you aren't running erands in your Hummer H2, you are screwing the system! Fvcking welfare queens!


Also (just for the hell of it) What was that most special of special republican mantras? Oh yes, "No new taxes" (unless it is for something that won't affect us as a party). incredulous.
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one thing he completely fails to point out, is that cyclists, weighing on average 95+% less than a car are also causing substantially less wear and tear to the roads themselves, both through weight loading and chemical expulsion (I don't think snot rockets degrade asphalt at the same rate as say, anti-freeze). So by causing less wear and tear, they are creating less need for repairs and are extending the usable life of the roads, thus offsetting the need to tax them.

dubious science is dubious.
 
Secret Squirrel

Secret Squirrel

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Dec 21, 2004
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Up sh*t creek, without a paddle
To be fair, this is the same area of the country where a residential burglar accidentally shot himself with a stolen rifle because a lever on the stolen shotgun pulled the trigger of the rifle while he was driving away in a stolen truck.

Epic win.
 
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Ride Monzie

Ride Monzie

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I keep coming back to this thread and checking the links hoping they eventually post a "got ya" message and it's all a hoax. This **** is (un) ****ing real. Wow. The crazy is strong out there.
 
boostindoubles

boostindoubles

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Annnd... he tries to back pedal out of this one


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/ed-orcutt-cyclists_n_2810570.html?utm_hp_ref=business

"SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Washington state lawmaker has apologized for telling a bike store owner, in a spat over a proposed bike fee, that bicyclists can cause pollution - just by breathing out carbon dioxide.

Ed Orcutt, a ranking Republican member of the state House of Representatives Transportation committee, said in an email exchange with a bike shop owner that drivers and bicyclists should both share the burden of preserving the roads they use.

"You claim that it is environmentally friendly to ride a bike," Orcutt wrote to Dale Carlson, the owner of three bicycle shops in the Tacoma and Olympia areas who voiced concern that a proposed $25 fee on bicycle sales of $500 or more could hurt his business.

"But if I am not mistaken, a cyclists has an increased heart rate and respiration ... Since CO2 is deemed a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclist are actually polluting when they ride," Orcutt wrote late last month.

On Monday, Orcutt hit the brakes and made a U-turn.

"My point was that by not driving a car, a cyclist was not necessarily having a zero-carbon footprint," Orcutt wrote in an email delivered to constituents. "In looking back, it was not a point worthy of even mentioning so, again, I apologize.""
 
$tinkle

$tinkle

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as a gesture of good will, perhaps we should all fill our camelbacks w/ reclaimed fracking fluid when we take to the road
 
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