Licenses for Bicycles? Seriously?

[Fatal_Bert]

What I find funny is some are saying they have already paid a road tax with their cars. But they think since that tax was paid it means they are free to use the roads however they want. That's like going to a steak house and buying a steak dinner but also telling them you want a free dinner to take home because you paid for the first one.

wut

 

[givejunkfree]

This is really a right to travel problem. Do you have the right to walk on the highway? No? Why not? If it is the most efficient way to move from one place to another and a public right of way.

Did anyone ever hear about the old woman who walked from Texas to Washington in the name of the right to travel? She walked on highways and through yards and golf courses. The whole reason we have public roads is to allow for the right to travel. If you are going to tax that right, might as well call Christ back because you will be in Rome BC.

 

[DTK Supply]

tax money taken from specific sources dont go to a fund to solely provide for said sources

it gets pooled together, its just another government tax scam

That's the point. With this logic in mind, does anyone think that any tax on bikes will change anything? Do you think it will get bikes single file on the road? Will a law that says "You have to" make it so? Or would this be just be another tax and just another law. It's the same argument, just a different topic.

Even the SPLOST taxes that people keep voting in place are wasted on removing sidewalks just to replace them with paver stones.

"Read my lips, no new taxes."

 

[twowheelz]

Yep, including speeding tickets.

When I was in high school I got a ticket in Kennesaw for speeding 12 over . I think the cop just wanted to check out the tight shorts.

 

[Fatal_Bert]

Fair enough, but that we could apply to everything and is a much broader discussion. To illustrate, being a 'serf' and all, let me give you another tax I support. On the federal level, I support a flat tax from dollar one no deductions for anything. That would subject more than half the country to 'new' taxes.

Lol. agreed. the flat tax could solve this and thousands of other debates.

 

[givejunkfree]

G** D**ned Lance Drug Addict Dikstrong! He started all this crap!!!

 

[strider12]

G** D**ned Lance Drug Addict Dikstrong! He started all this crap!!!

Yep.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Not even close to the same. The steak house did not force you to buy a steak. The same cannot be said of taxing the public for various purposes.

This thread is all over the place. If the bill is strictly a means to enact new laws for RIDING a bike (single file etc...) on public roadways and the tag is simply a means to IDENTIFY the bike while being used on the road, then 95% of this thread is pointless. If that is in fact the only reason for the bill, then I disagree with it, but I do UNDERSTAND the logic behind it. If that is the case, it is catering to a few vocal anti-bicyclists and will do little to fix the perceived problem.
However, saying I have registered my car(s) for use on the public roadways therefore I should not have to register my bike for use on the public roadways is illogical and indefensible. Someone (Hoss?) suggested a SINGLE user fee for all road uses, that's fine, but the guy using 10 different things on the road (assuming we all agree with having a registration system) is more costly than the guy using one thing and should pay for that incremental registration costs. NOT from 'wear and tear' but the costs of the registration of the multiple vehicles.

 

[Proximal]

Ya, this thread is all over the place. I kind of hope it dies now...

 

[givejunkfree]

Good grief, lets just have a user FEE for everything we do. Travel, eat, converse, be healthy, make babies.....