Should you get a Free (Bicycle) Ride? - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

07-22-2004, 10:24 AM

> Bicycle riders should have to pay a tax or a toll to ride on the
> streets and roadway paid by liquid fuel taxes. The money should
> then be used to build cycle roadways. EVERYONE would benefit.
> Unfortunately bicycle riders want to continue to ride for free.
> It the American way I guess, to believe the government should tax
> someone else for the things you want for free.

Propose something absurd, make sure nothing is ever done about it.

We live in a society and must be some things that make life
pleasurable: arts, parks, bike routes... Or you want people to pay for
their own parks too?

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