It amazes me how naive "professional" transportation folks are on the issue of who pays for the roads and how to "fix" the system.
By Greg Cohen President and CEO, American Highway Users Alliance:
"The second argument is that funding bicycle paths from the Highway Trust Fund is a diversion of highway user fees, since the fund is made up of tax receipts from motor vehicle users."
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"A relatively small user fee on these sales and on new tires could provide the dedicated funding that would keep bicycle infrastructure investments stable and growing, and eliminate the most persuasive objections from bicycling opponents."
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We already have a tax on our bicycles and tires the difference is our tax goes into a general fund while motor vehicle tax goes into a special fund just for "them" and NOT for emergency response services and police services that motorist use, that bit is paid for by what cyclists contribute to.
We would be all for a system just like motor vehicles, take our tax from the general fund and put it into a special fund.
You can see the problem, they want to double tax us and yet no tax "keeping up with inflation" increases for motor vehicles let alone start double taxing motor vehicles with a "use tax" plus a sales tax.
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Referenced post: https://transportation.nationaljournal.com/2011/09/traffic-anger-and-political-ac.php#2089396 oldId.20111014184420113
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