public policy theory discovers bicycles

On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 6:27:34 PM UTC-7, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:43:44 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

On 7/26/2018 7:19 PM, 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..._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.

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 -- so don't expect your tire tax money to be building a bike path near you anytime soon.. DONALD TRUMP IS AGAIN SCREWING YOU PERSONALLY! Stealing your money and not giving you a path.

Watching the TdF makes me want to move to France . . . to one of those beautiful little towns where it is not clear what anyone does for a living.. No strip malls. No I-80. Just picturesque monasteries and winding roads with no traffic -- except for bicycles and support vehicles, and maybe some people dressed up like the devil. I can't imagine why you would give up the Bavarian Alps -- Alphorn and lederhosen -- for Cameron Park.


I don't disagree with you overall but a bicycle tire excise
tax could be viewed as catch up since the non-highway
portion of the Highway Trust Fund has grown like Topsy on HGO.

Nothing on heaven or earth is going to rid that fund of it's
real problems, viz.,

-Original engineering spec of the Interstate system was 50
year life. Now that every contractor has achieved
enlightenment, we're below 12 years life on average and
dropping.

-'Prevailing wage', which is higher than the prevailing
wage. Davis-Bacon has its roots in the discovery in New York
in 1931 that black labor did a better job in construction
for lower wages. Shamefully, it's still law.

-not only kiddie bicycle paths but HTF also diverts into
financially indefensible urban bus and train systems which
are so badly run they make Beirut look like Zurich.

-Denny The Pervert Hastert rerouted an Interstate when he
was Speaker to access land in central Illinois he bought
cheap and flipped profitably after the route changed. Not an
isolated case by any means.


Wazza matter you? Don't you think that an individual who works hard
should be compensated? And politics is an exhausting game. You gotta
raise the original stake; run for election .. and win.. and then
satisy all of your financial supporters. It's not all just sitting in
back rooms and smokiing big ciggars.




-I'm sure we all have our favorite examples as there are so
many from which to choose.

In theory taxing tires ought to mean taxing all tires. I get
that. But in practice every dime allows the least among us
to go out into the world and do evil in my name.

Maybe you missed it but Trump financed his own campaign. beattie as usual passes around the socialist koolaid.