Tax Bicyclists For Exhaling CO2 When They Ride, Says Wash. Rep

[Ponce]

One of the reasons for the bicycle tax? we are breathing to hard LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL......so, use a car...how about when we have sex? or when we excersize? or when working to hard?.......are they going to tax the air around us?

Be sure to go to the link to see the email, I am unable to capture it to post it.........all that this dickhead want's to do is to prove that he is doing something for his job.
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Taxing the air we breathe may be coming to Washington state. Yes, the insane taxing of every behavior is rising to a whole new level with the proposed "bike tax" in Washington.

According to lawmakers who proposed the bike tax, it would help raise $1 million over the next decade to be used for road maintenance. The new $25 tax will be applied on every bike sold for over $500 in the state.

One Washington lawmaker is making twisted argument in support of the new fee. Rep. Ed Orcutt wrote in an email to a bike shop that the CO2 that bicyclists exhale while riding is just one of the reasons he supports the bike tax.

"Since CO2 is deemed a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride," Orcutt wrote. Therefore, they should pay taxes to help the environment as well as the roads.

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/03/tax-bicyclists-for-exhaling-co2-when.html

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[Cebu_4_2]

CO2 is not a pollutant.

[mamboni]

Elitist bastards have us totally enslaved. We have to pay them at every fucking turn for basically living our lives. If you told your grandparents that you would have to pay a tax for breathing, first they would say your nuts; and then they would say that you are a dumb sheep to let anyone use you like that. This CO2 tax just illustrates how completely craven and out of control the plutocrats are. They have been baking our consciousness with one Hegelian dialectic after another; and we are suffering from a kind of mass insanity/stupidity/numbness.

"Please sir, I'd like another." <sarcasm>

[vacuum]

I think they should also create another, higher, tax for not doing enough exercise. This tax will go to support increased medical costs associated with poor health and lack of exercise.

This higher tax will make the bicycle comparatively lower cost, while at the same time it will still be supporting the environment. With this proposal, everybody wins.

[vacuum]

I'm not understanding how this whole greenhouse gas thing is set in stone. The last time I checked all the science was being questioned, many reports have been shown to have been exaggerated and falsified, and yet the status quo isn't even budging a tiny bit. Amazing.

[JohnQPublic]

They are running out of money, and CO2 is measurable, and a potential cash cow. "If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet." Now it's if you exhale, I'll tax your breath.

[Dogman]

They are running out of money, and CO2 is measurable, and a potential cash cow. "If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet." Now it's if you exhale, I'll tax your breath. ;D



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0M__0Z1pjg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0M__0Z1pjg


Now for the real thing!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqK97av7I3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqK97av7I3s


;D

[mamboni]

They are running out of money, and CO2 is measurable, and a potential cash cow. "If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet." Now it's if you exhale, I'll tax your breath.

George Harrison was a visionary. Actually, he empathized with the working man who knew the score vis-a-vis neverending taxes.

[Sparky]

I thought this had to be some type of joke, but apparently not.

Though I disagree that bicyclists should pay a separate fee for road maintenance, one could make a reasonable argument for it since they do use the roads. However, to tie it to increased CO2 respiratory emissions is beyond absurd, and shatters all credibility associated with the proposal.

[Hitch]

I thought this had to be some type of joke, but apparently not.

Though I disagree that bicyclists should pay a separate fee for road maintenance, one could make a reasonable argument for it since they do use the roads. However, to tie it to increased CO2 respiratory emissions is beyond absurd, and shatters all credibility associated with the proposal.

I agree...I am not going to hold my breath waiting for this to pass.

[Serpo]

CO2 is not a pollutant.

But politicians are..................

[gunDriller]

i have a hunch that Rep. Orcutt, when he looks back at his career, will not think of this time as a high point.

"Since CO2 is deemed a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride," Orcutt wrote. Therefore, they should pay taxes to help the environment as well as the roads."


but i could go along on taxing Rep. Orcutt for just breathing.

i wonder if i could sell him an air compressor so he could bottle all the CO2 he emits ?

[Glass]

why should cyclists pay anything towards the roads. Stupid claim on par with the c02 claim.

[JohnQPublic]

I think that anyone who eats beans or other legumes has more gas than other citizens, plus, methane (the main component of gas) is a more severe greenhouse gas than CO2. So bean and legume eaters should be taxed for their "pollution". Maybe we can create a market for fart credits? Maybe Al Gore will fund it (put your money where your a**hole is).

[Ponce]

As time goes by you will see more and more of this kind of laws......the final objective of all this is for the poleticians to get paid......even if many of us wont........next? those recieving Social Security will have to pay tax on it...

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[gunDriller]

I think that anyone who eats beans or other legumes has more gas than other citizens, plus, methane (the main component of gas) is a more severe greenhouse gas than CO2.

we could always turn the tables, bottle our farts, and sell them as (literally) natural gas.

propane, methane - what's the difference ?

[General of Darkness]

What's interesting is that it looks like they're changing the exceptions for working and show dogs in L.A. Now they want $350 per dog in L.A. for any dog you have that isn't neutered. Well the problem isn't with responsible dog owners, and it's not going to be the mestizos, white trash and negros breeding dogs that's going to be paying, but the responsible dog owners. So with 2 natural dogs that are working they're going to want $700 bucks from me. This type of shit is going to bankrupt the groups that produce assisted living dogs etc.

Guberment is just in the way of progress and do more harm than anything else. Maybe instead of taxing the people that DO, neuter the ones that DON'T.

[EE_]

What's interesting is that it looks like they're changing the exceptions for working and show dogs in L.A. Now they want $350 per dog in L.A. for any dog you have that isn't neutered. Well the problem isn't with responsible dog owners, and it's not going to be the mestizos, white trash and negros breeding dogs that's going to be paying, but the responsible dog owners. So with 2 natural dogs that are working they're going to want $700 bucks from me. This type of shit is going to bankrupt the groups that produce assisted living dogs etc.

Guberment is just in the way of progress and do more harm than anything else. Maybe instead of taxing the people that DO, neuter the ones that DON'T.

$700 for what?

[General of Darkness]

$700 for what?

$350 per dog that's not neutered. Fucking insanity. Last week when my female was in heat I was taking her to WORK with me because I didn't want anything stupid to happen, YET I need to pay.

[EE_]

$350 per dog that's not neutered. Fucking insanity. Last week when my female was in heat I was taking her to WORK with me because I didn't want anything stupid to happen, YET I need to pay.

For a license, or fine? What ever it is, I'm sure it's lunacy

[General of Darkness]

For a license, or fine? What ever it is, I'm sure it's lunacy

Good fucking question and I'm not sure. Kinda like the OP story, is that a fine or a license. At the end of the day it's neither, it's just a way the guberment rolls. Remove the relationship from the hard working person with their FRNs.

[Twisted Titan]

I wont nueter shit.

Any politico is more then welcome to come to my house and check my dog personally.

Let me get the popcorn and vid cam up first.

It will definately go viral

[mamboni]

Whether you call it a license, a fine, a tax, a toll, a surcharge or a user fee, it always amounts to the same damn thing: money moving out of your pocket and into the coffers of government. And government is always crying poverty and extolling us to pay our fair shares. Government is a beggar and a parasite.

[Twisted Titan]

There is nothing that the Gubbermint has that is not stolen by either deception, threat of force or actual force

[cortez]

$350 per dog that's not neutered. Fucking insanity. Last week when my female was in heat I was taking her to WORK with me because I didn't want anything stupid to happen, YET I need to pay.
you ever gonna leave SoCal??

[Hitch]

I think that anyone who eats beans or other legumes has more gas than other citizens, plus, methane (the main component of gas) is a more severe greenhouse gas than CO2. So bean and legume eaters should be taxed for their "pollution". Maybe we can create a market for fart credits? Maybe Al Gore will fund it (put your money where your a**hole is).

They actually tried to do this. Tax cows for methane pollution. $175 per cow. Old story but I found it...

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/farmers-relax-a-little-after-cow-tax-scare/