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Now They've Done It: A Sin Tax on...Bikes
Townhall.com ^ | March 8, 2013 | Lincoln Brown

Posted on 03/08/2013 5:22:06 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: Spktyr

I get so mad when I see bicyclists riding right through stop signs without stopping. It also ticks me off when they ride against traffic. Why do they think that traffic laws are for anyone but them?


61 posted on 03/09/2013 7:17:07 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
"Interesting how the media responds to a little tittytwister.

Journalism is the lowest form of both educational majors at the college level and professional occupations.

People advance only for their ability to find sensationalism or political advantage in the stories they cover, or their personal physical attributes.

62 posted on 03/09/2013 7:25:06 AM PST by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: Jonty30

I have nothing against bicycle riders as long as they ride with the traffic and not against the traffic. Of course they should always ride on the extreme right so not to endanger themselves


63 posted on 03/09/2013 7:30:50 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
I get so mad when I see bicyclists riding right through stop signs without stopping

Have you ever sat at an intersection and seen how few CARS stop at stop signs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn_YRX0x1Pg

64 posted on 03/09/2013 8:00:37 AM PST by Michamilton
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To: Michamilton

Oh I know that, and I can give you an example that I never forget. Fort Campbell BLVD which is Highway 41A is a six lane highway (3 lanes going south into Clarksville, TN and lanes going north into KY. Plus it has a turning lane for turning left. A few years ago I was driving south on the highway on the right lane and had to stop because the traffic light was red. Another car had stopped next to the turning lane. Suddenly a driver of a car drove right through the second lane, the one between the right lane where I was and the other car that had stopped on the left lane. Luckily no turning traffic came.


65 posted on 03/09/2013 8:24:31 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Michamilton

Watching the video, I have to ask you: Do you stop directly at a stop sign, because many times you can not even see the traffic coming if you do, so you have to move a few feet forwards until until you do. Stopping at a 4-way stop sign is no problem


66 posted on 03/09/2013 8:33:27 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“This is being pushed by a Republican in a snarky effort to humiliate Democrats.”

Mission Impossible.

Humiliation requires shame, guilt, honor.

Seen a Democrat with those attributes? I haven’t.


67 posted on 03/09/2013 8:53:03 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
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To: GladesGuru

The only thing that works is ridicule, and you have to keep it simple.


68 posted on 03/09/2013 9:01:21 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Kaslin
Huh? You are out of your cotton picking mind

Dale's teasing. He does that. He's a lot like al baby. He's really a nice older guy, with a beautiful wife.

69 posted on 03/09/2013 9:22:53 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Kaslin

Despite the nonsense, does a person riding a $500+ bicycle breathe more than a person riding a $499 or less bicycle?


70 posted on 03/09/2013 10:16:50 AM PST by jughandle
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To: Kaslin
But according to one legislator, it is the amount of carbon exhaled by cyclists that merit them getting hit with this tax.

Just wait until they factor in leguminous methane...

71 posted on 03/09/2013 11:48:01 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Kaslin; ExTexasRedhead
For later read ................................................................................... FRegards
72 posted on 03/09/2013 3:53:58 PM PST by gonzo ( Buy more ammo, dammit! You should already have the firearms ... FRegards)
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To: Kaslin

Cyclists should have to carry liability insurance to cover the damage that they do.

And yes, they DO do damage and they ARE responsible for pedestrian injuries and deaths.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/09/19/study-approximately-1000-pedestrians-struck-by-bikes-annually-in-new-york/


73 posted on 03/09/2013 4:04:56 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yep so they can’t ride their fancy bikes. I bet it’s already been passed as an amendment under a passed law which doesn’t remotely have anything to do with that law passed. That’s how the jerks local, state and federal do it.


74 posted on 03/09/2013 4:31:28 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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