Originally Posted by
Dudelsack
*chuckle*
Go over to the Addiction thread and just mention Fox News in a completely neutral context and see what happens
The point I took from that passage is that taxing cyclists is not a new idea, as the Dutch did it in the 1930s.
If cities are going to pony up for cycling infrastructure, is it not reasonable to expect the end-users to bear at least some of the costs?
I think we would all agree that if all the city did was paint sharrows, we ain't coughing it up for that.
What about all them smart book-readin' people? Shouldn't they have to pay more to use the library? Those big, thick books with not many pictures cost a lot of money! I never read them, so I shouldn't have my taxes go to that. (imagine a sarcasm emoticon here)