Don't call me "boy", shitferbrains...for starters.

Fish on...

Todd

"Boy" is worse than "Shitferbrains"?

Just trying to get it straight.....wouldn't want to offend you or anything.

No...calling me "boy" is inaccurate.

Fish on...

Todd

There's that weak thinking again.......

No, that means calling Slappy "shitferbrains" is not only accurate, but demonstrably so.

Fish on...

Todd

Hank,

You have a problem with paying for bicycle lanes that the cyclists aren't helping to pay for via gas tax? First, roads are paid for through avenues in addition to gas taxes, but never mind that. Don't build bike lanes. Then bikes ride on the same road Slappy is trying to drive on and building up his blood pressure, about to burst a vein in his forehead, because there's a damn bike on the road in front of him. Seems like a no-win situation.

$25 is not the big deal. The problem I see is that the state creates more avenues of taxation than it can economically track; i.e., they'll spend more than $25 collecting, administering, managing, and tracking the $25. There's better ways to establish and manage the gov't revenue stream, but that's a different subject. And $499 is a cheap bike, not really good enough to be a daily commuter, more of a kid's play lot bike, but that too, is another subject. Stupid f'n legislators.

Sg

Interesting point on the subject of administering taxation and fee type programs SG. Spend ten bucks to save five is always bad math eh? God bless the government. So many examples of that exact point are being illuminated in this whole sequestration process. Further proof that it is not driven by a true efficiency and cost savings agenda, but rather some political BS.

As a side note but perhaps relevant, I was attempting to do my taxes a few nights back and noticed that the state of Alaska takes about $13 from each permanent fund dividend check that it issues to each of AK's 732,000 residents to "administer" the dividend program.

That works out to roughly 9.5 million dollars annually. Wow? I am entirely ignorant of what administering such a program would cost, but 9.5 million would buy a lot more full time jobs, computers, and file cabinets than I would think it takes to track that sort of data. Granted there are enforcement and investigations components, but still?

I think a "toll" would be a good idea.....collected every time a "Lance Boy" uses a bicycle path paid for by folks who don't use it. Oh, and drop that Five Hundred Dollar thing......that's ridiculous......make it Five dollars per gear....easier to verify.

Slappy is better at stirring the pot than he is at making sensible suggestions. Not that anyone is surprised.

Sht, Sg.......the whole thing is a pot stir............
Waste of time stupid damn idea from the get go.

Some just take themselves way too seriously.

I had a road bike for a while and put on some serious miles while training for triathlons.

While I didn't do much damage to the roads, my hemroids were a bloody massacre!

Sold the bike, you can have that sh!t.

Point being, bikers are in enough pain as is. Can't even take a decent dump without tears.

Least we could do is not charge em for their suffering.

Just get a car will ya?

Aha! So that's where your name came from........

(just yankin')

or would that be "Dropping Pearls"?

Rocket red would be more accurate. Haha.