Posted on 07/18/2017 10:40:03 AM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl
In Oregon, a state known for its avid bicycling culture, the state Legislature’s approval of the first statewide bike tax in the nation has fallen flat with riders.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Where do you live that requires a bicycle license?
What is the tax for? It’s my bike, I use my own muscles, my own food for fuel, my own lungs. Very minimal (read: no) damage to the roads.
No, I didn’t read the article.
FU Oregon legislators.
Here’s the solution, just tax the richest 50% of bike riders so as to support the other 50% - clearly the top 50% didn’t deserve their break in life and should pay the whole tax.
You’re telling me. I once spent a weekend with a friend from Massachusetts. All they talked about at the diner table was how diverse and high their taxes were.
I’m waiting for the smog inspections to start.
“Look for a new 25.9 inch diameter design to become available.”
Guaranteed!
“Or maybe they will be smuggled in from out of state”
Not likely - there’s no sales tax in Oregon. All the neighbors do.
Didn’t these fools in Salem try to impose a mileage tax on motor vehicles?
I can’t find much on it, other than a Wikipedia reference to a 5,000 user trial program supposed to have started in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_miles_traveled_tax
Gee, how’s that going, mohrons?
Tax the non bike riders and use that money to support the less fortunate. But them bikes with the money.
All the taxes collected are going to bike trails if there is any left over from the 62 people hired at guberment salaries to manage the program.
Suck it up, Butter cups. Hahahaaaaaa.
That's hardly true east of the Cascades. The PNW does not end at Snoqualmie Pass.
Sorry...NW to me is West of the Cascades... you know...where a lot of flaming liberals live.
Northwest Ohio. They want money for everything...
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