Fairweather

Like I said, I don't really support this tax but I do enjoy watching hypocrisy at its finest. Based on the composition of your statement above, we still have a long way to go regarding schools.

Drivers pays a pittance, considering the wear on the roads, the pollution, and the thousands of bystanders killed annually. When is the last time a bicyclist has killed a bystander? You're kidding, right?

A cyclist who does not also drive a car likely pays no property or business taxes either. He or she is also, possibly, a heavily taxpayer-subsidized student. Ok, he likely pays sales tax on that Big Gulp that he buys down the street from campus. A pittance, really. His parasitic social standing remains.

Oh really? You must mean cyclists who also drive or pay taxes for roads in some other manner--but, of course, bicyclists themselves do not pay for roads via their activity. It's surprising you're so unwilling to step up and contribute even while you support fees and taxes for others via the RTA, viaduct replacement, and the 520 bridge.

Isn't that a quote from GGK's babushka?

Nice try, but your strategy of bolstering your arguments with personal fictions should be apparent by now even to the most brainless tool here. BTW, did you ever get that HTML issue figured out?

Yes, as in "me work, you don't". Me smart and independently self supporting. You not. You're an idiot. Get a job. Stop the charade. Dumbass.

Pitcher, or catcher?

I've spent 30 years talking to the people you describe and the vast majority fall well inside the IQR. What we have on this site are a bunch of outliers who found a home. I'm here to provide a faint voice for reality. Charity work, really.

your distate for the forces of capital is practically Democratic! Um...TTK's tall tales about his personal resume have been revealed as "inaccurate". Where ya been?

I didn't know I had to choose a side. Are you saying that if I don't support Crux' proposed violence against the president then, by definition, I must hate the environment?

Um...they liked the revolution they saw over here, tried it, and let it go horribly wrong? :head in basket emoticon:

Yer a reel tough guy. Grrrrrrrrrr.

You guys are idiots. If you bothered to read my two initial posts on the subject, you would understand that I'm really not for this tax. But I do think the indignation about this proposal from the same knee-jerk libs here who regularly argue more taxation for the common good is pretty funny. What a bunch of freeloaders. Espacially TTK--who doesn't even have a job, for God's sake!

Yes, as in "me work, you don't".

I hear what you're saying, but in Washington State sidewalks are built/maintained with property taxes paid by homeowners and businesses or mitigation fees paid by developers. In fact, in the town where I live I recently had to shell out $1100 to rebuild the sidewalk that passes in front of my house because it was being uprooted by a tree that the town had planted in the right of way. So I'm not sure your argument works well. But you're right...where does it stop? Don't forget--motor vehicle drivers are paying for those bike lanes, and those cyclists still require energy to move from point A to point B. Chances are that energy was grown with the help of carbon-based fuels.

Normally I don't like new taxes, but this seems like the perfect opportunity for those who ride to share the burden. Were it not for that "Critical Mass" fiasco a couple months ago, I'll bet this idea wouldn't have a prayer... http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008474326_opin07jimvesely.html

Oh, so arrests have been made, they've determined it was Arson, and people to the left of center have claimed responsability? Yes to all. Unfortunately their leader shot himself in his bunker before he could be made to account. So it goes...

Sorry, didn't see it. But what do you think of the question?

Contrast what would have become of somebody who chucked a shoe at Mubarak, Basher Assad, Ahmadinejad...or Saddam Hussein. That, it seems to me, is a question worth asking.

The hate you guys spread about this woman has consequences. Doesn't it bother you that some of your like-minded thugs set fire to a Palin's church in Wasilla (with children inside)? Well done. You guys remind me of the Krystalnacht crowd all over again.

Not bad.

Boca a boca. Ello es esperma banco de Ivan. TTK: No, mano a mano no es también tan hombre a hombre. ¿Comprendes? Tu no entiendes español muy bien y tu eres bobo grande. Una vez mas, tu tienes insertar su pie en su boca.

Hand to hand? WTF?