He forgot about all those freeloaders who get to use sidewalks for free. We should tax shoes too!
Yours in cycling, Dave Schlabowske Communications Director Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin 414-271-9685 414-736-2209 [email protected] www.bfw.org On Oct 25, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Matt Logan wrote: > Who says the Tea Party doesn’t like taxes! > > Source: http://wisconsin912project.org/ > > Tea Party Member Endorses Wheel Tax > Written by Francisco d’Anconia > Thursday, 20 October 2011 18:41 > In view of current circumstances where massive new sources of revenue are > necessary to keep the bloated ship of state afloat, I find it detestably > expedient to support numerous new wheel taxes. > > It is becoming increasingly obvious that our government’s insatiable need to > spend extravagantly will not be abated by either common sense or fiscal > responsibility. > > Therefore, the only alternative, other than bankruptcy, is to develop new > hitherto untapped streams of confiscated income. > > Having already exploited and expanded most other forms of taxation, e.g.: > income, real estate, sales, fuel, telephone, utility, etc., it seems one of > the few viable remaining is the wheel tax. > > That having been said, I only support the taxation of very specific classes > of wheels. I do not endorse further taxation of those already exorbitantly > taxed such as automobiles and trucks, especially pick-up trucks. (One would > have thought that the state and federal gasoline tax, designated for road > maintenance, would actually have been used for that purpose. One would have > been wrong.) > > Rather, I would tax those that have so far enjoyed a free ride. I’m talking > about bicycles, tricycles, two and three-wheeled recumbents, segues, > strollers, roller blades and skates (including the sneaker skates), walkers, > push scooters, and any other non-fossil fuel powered wheeled vehicles > currently not paying any gas tax. Where is the fairness ?! > > I say our elected rulers have been remiss and negligent in overlooking this > fertile field of fruitful resources. Could it be that these pernicious > promoters of non-fossil fueled perambulation have a strong enough lobby to > have been able to avoid for so many years shouldering their fair share of the > burden. I say, “Enough already!” > > (Details of potential policies and procedures to follow in subsequent > articles.) > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
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