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Title: As city cycling grows, so does bike tax temptation
Post by: Roger Bacon on December 27, 2013, 06:29:47 PM
What's wrong with these liberal bastards??

As city cycling grows, so does bike tax temptation
By JASON KEYSER
Associated Press

A city councilwoman's recent proposal to institute a $25 annual cycling tax set off a lively debate that eventually sputtered out after the city responded with a collective "Say what?" A number of gruff voices spoke in favor, feeding off motorists' antagonism toward what they deride as stop sign-running freeloaders. Bike-friendly bloggers retorted that maybe pedestrians ought to be charged a shoe tax to use the sidewalks

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