http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/20/lawmaker-disagrees-with-her-own-bicycle-tax Comments On: Lawmaker Disagrees With Her Own Bicycle Tax by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sales tax on a car is capped at $300

Nice attempt at yet another bike nazi lie!
Posted by Unbrainwashed]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:30:57 -0800 The Stranger Bike owners pay taxes that subsequently pay for the roads and other infrastructure. You don't pay enough sales tax on your car, I pay sales tax for my bike, especially if it's more expensive. This tax also wouldn't even go to bike infrastructure, so it's just stupid to have bikes subsidizing the laziness of drivers. I don't owe you any favors, but I'm doing the government and the general public a favor by riding my bicycle.
Posted by wavecross]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:25:22 -0800 The Stranger
It's not about dogma. It's about getting something done. (And then you complain about Congress accomplishing nothing...)

Posted by bigyaz]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:08:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Unbrainwashed]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:36:45 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Unbrainwashed]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:35:53 -0800 The Stranger Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:10:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:08:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:57:03 -0800 The Stranger
Hopefully the tax will modify the behavior of the bike Nazis to STFU about "one more car off the road and the world will be better."
Posted by GeneStoner]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:47:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by badstone]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:33:06 -0800 The Stranger
Even if your car is your primary resident?

"water runoff cleanup, payment to the thousands of family members of people killed by cars every year, plus their funeral expenses, and programs to mitigate the tens if thousands of pets and wildlife killed, and to replace the environment destroyed by car sprawl. "

How about a tax for all the good paying auto worker jobs you don't create?

Be careful, your hate is showing.
Posted by Car Bum]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:15:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Tri4Fun]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:25:13 -0800 The Stranger
No, I'll bet Clibborn wishes she didn't have to show her hand so quickly. In doing so, those eastern Republicans might smell the double cross in her tactics.

That said, there is nowhere near enough transit dollars in this one. It raises $10 billion while only giving 7% to non transit and non-motorized? That's nuts and even less than they gave when McGinn thrashed a plan that was even better for transit back in 2008.

This should be interesting? As for my opinion, they aren't calling for a registration or licensing regimen on bikes so no sweat $25 bucks on new bikes could easily have been $25 on bike parts on each sale. I'm sure that it won't affect online sales either. This thing won't even be felt.

Now let's fix the transit problem in the bill!
Posted by Why are there cars?]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:14:11 -0800 The Stranger
It's like taxing wheelchairs and spending it on stairway construction.
Posted by Free Lunch]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:28:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by raku]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:21:42 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by Joseph]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:23:08 -0800 The Stranger Speaking of Cascade, I posted a forum thread trying to find out if anyone has been fined under the Vulnerable User Bill (fines can be levied up to $5000).

http://www.cascade.org/Community/forum/m…


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:55:02 -0800 The Stranger
The long & short of it is that the entire concept of traffic is based on the car. Infrastructure, the laws, the attitudes are there to accommodate automobiles. You can rant all you like about those damn kids, but nothing will change until bicycles are assumed to have an equal presence in traffic. They require their own dedicated lanes and their own set of rules, so they can interact safely w/ both pedestrians and cars.
Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:53:24 -0800 The Stranger , I tried!
Posted by pat L]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:47:03 -0800 The Stranger
http://cascade.org/advocacy/pdf/leg-scor…
Posted by big l]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:32:18 -0800 The Stranger
http://taxfoundation.org/article/map-pro…


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:25:22 -0800 The Stranger
Judy Clibborn is another transportation dinosaur that need to go the way of her old pal Mary Margaret Haugen.
Posted by SuperSteve]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:23:57 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Call it "equity"]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:23:42 -0800 The Stranger
If you want stuff pay for it..with property tax.


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:19:28 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Make it an annual bike tax]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:19:19 -0800 The Stranger