On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 10:04:41 AM UTC-7, duane wrote:
On 27/07/2018 11:38 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 7:52:13 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-07-26 17:19, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 4:30:12 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-07-24 17:10, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 3:59:35 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-07-24 06:05, AMuzi wrote:
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https://transportation.house.gov/upl...y_section_.pdf





Which is roughly the level of current motor vehicle tire tax, a fixture
of Federal budgets since 1918.


That'll create lots of jobs. In Thailand and China.


... I'll hold my breath for the Skateboard Wheel Tax.


How about a shoe tax? And a CO2 tax per cubic-inch of lung
volume. If not paid some government goon will tape mouth and
nose shut.

You want all that infrastructure including bike paths and lanes.
Somebody's got to pay for it. An excise tax on tires will not
skip foreign manufactured goods. Sellers of those goods in the US
have to pay the tax, and it gets passed on to you in the price --
like the alcohol and tobacco taxes. If you import tires directly
from Thailand, it gets collected by CBP along with custom duty
and the other border add-ons like the Merchandise Processing Fee.
YOU'RE SCREWED! Donald Trump is personally screwing you. The
liberal snowflakes love bike tires and would not screw you --
except in Oregon where the ONLY consumer product with a separate
sales tax is a bicycle.
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...e_only_bi.html


$15 smackers. But no tire tax. You can even open-carry your tires in
Oregon.

The good news is that the posted discussion draft isn't even a
bill yet. The commie liberals from Oregon will put the brakes on
the tire tax.
https://blumenauer.house.gov/congressional-bike-caucus Call me
Earl. I actually know Earl and will tell him to stand up to the
bike tire tax! No bike tire tax!! (continue chanting). Maybe we
can get them to tax something else, like wood pellets or analog
and mixed signal circuit designs.


No new taxes. We pay about 10x the amount of property tax compared
to where we lived before. That finances bike path among other
things and it's enough.

Give the state more "revenue" and they will quickly squander that
on fat pensions and union boondoggles.

O.K., so where does the money come from? Trees? Property taxes
typically don't fund transportation infrastructure, unless you guys
passed a bond for bike paths. I doubt that has happened, but who
knows -- see if it is a line item on your property tax statement. In
your area, funding probably comes from extorting developers, user
fees, parking meters, allocated funds from the state, bake sales,
church rummage sales and telethons.


It also comes from developer fees, of course. Cities such as Folsom
where leaders are smarter than elsewhere have instituted rules that
traffic mitigation must include bicycle riders and pedestrians. For
smaller projects the developers get away with bike lanes, for larger
ones they must provide class I paths. That then spills over to
neighboring communties because their leaders see all this work well. I
thoroughly enjoyed the results yesterday again like I do almost every
week. On my road bike. Of the 41mi trip there were, at most, 2mi on
roads without bike lanes.


The proposed tax on bike tires is a federal excise tax, and that tax
would go into the Highway Trust Fund along with gas taxes and car
battery taxes, car tire taxes, etc. The Highway Trust Fund may fund
certain "transportation alternatives" involving bicycle
infrastructure, but those TAs are generally considered frivolous by
the Republican administration


If paid for with gas taxes bike paths shall not be a priority. When a
highway is built that cust off cyclists from their usual access to an
area though altenatives must be provided. Mitigation is the word.


... -- so don't expect your tire tax money
to be building a bike path near you anytime soon.


If tax is collected from bicycle tire sales then that shall be used for
bike infrastructure.


... DONALD TRUMP IS
AGAIN SCREWING YOU PERSONALLY! Stealing your money and not giving you
a path.


He is not. The tax reform alone was a major success. I could not believe
the barrage of project requests I received as a consultant since January
this year. It just comes at the wrong time in life for me as I am trying
to reduce my project load, easing towards retirement. More brewing, more
riding.

I'm a clear loser under the Trump tax plan which means that I am subsidizing you. Welfare queen! It will take me a year or two before I can truly game the system and get in on the pass-through boondoggle. The real shoe will drop when all the temporary cuts are reversed -- except the corporate rate -- to pay off the ballooning debt. Then you will see a huge wealth-shift to stake-holders in pass through entities, and specifically, Donald Trump. The tax plan was basically written for him. Yet another reason for buying income producing real estate and running it through a LLC.

-- Jay Beattie.



The shoe will drop for me soon since I will shortly be looking to cash
in on those "entitlements" that I've been paying for for the last 40
years. Speaking of welfare queens... As long as they don't grab my SS
money to pay the 12 billion for the farmers that they screwed with the
easily won trade war that trump started.

They've already moved the bar to collect and they seem to be passing
bills to whittle away at it further while everyone is distracted by
trump's constant noise.

Another socialist that knows neither what the tariffs were for or what ensued. Too bad you people believe that if you invent something other people that actually know better will believe you.