What does "privatization"
have to do with a government license tax for Madison. Then one would
know just how large the bicycle use contingent actually is. Aren't
there hunting fees, State park camping fees, all sorts of user fees.
In your book Matt, are those privatizations? Is the auto licensing for
both drivers and vehicles--privatization by "fiscal conservatives?"
Again, possibly a hostile attitude has been detected at times by
cyclists of motorists who feel they are the only people paying. Most,
in fact travel to work by their automobiles on the roads where they
then pay taxes. Isn't that the excuse for every child to receive a
"state school subsidy--k12" of roughly $120,000. a head? That is--that
somehow they become productive and add that much value? Some stretch
of reasoning, I know.
EW
Matt Logan wrote:
When the amount of public subsidy for
bicycling infrastructure + human-scaled accessibility exceeds the
subsidy for
roads over the last 75 years, then we will be at what I consider
parity.
Unfortunately, congress has been using general tax revenues to keep the
highway
trust fund afloat over the last few years. Based on my
recollection, there was $16bil redirected last year, and they are
planning on
$21bil next year – so we are still going backwards in terms of
parity. This is in addition to the billions out of the stimulus
package
for roads. And then there is a problem of local roads largely being
funding by local taxes. Oh, and then there’s the auto-company
bailout we could toss into the parity equation.
It is always a mystery to me why the
so-called fiscal conservatives don’t start their privatization of
transportation with roads – it is where the largest immediate impact to
the size of government can be made.
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Counts (was Question on bicycle traffic counts)
But my only point was the
lack of parity of the car tab and the city bike path tab.
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