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"Mark Gibson" <gibson@bluestem.prairienet.org> wrote in message
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> <gruagach@puca.com> wrote:
>
> >"Mark Gibson" <gibson@bluestem.prairienet.org> wrote in message
> >> Dave Snowden <dvs519@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> >On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:18:56 -0500 (EST), Dobrow Stephen
> >>
> >> >>> > And road use taxes should not go to pay for transit.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Why not?
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >>Because liquor taxes should only pay for bars.
> >>
> >> >Everyone who uses the road should benefit from the road tax.
> >>
> >> >Let's see, that's (listed in random order)
> >>
> >> > taxis
> >> > trucks
> >> > trucks pulling 3 trailers
> >> > vans
> >> > SUVs
> >> > motorcycles
> >> > tricycles
> >> > bicycles
> >> > busses
> >> > electric trolley coaches
> >> > streetcars when they run in the street
> >> > trains when they run down the middle of the street
> >> > limousines
> >> > tanks
> >> > automobiles
> >>
> >> Don't forget that just about everybody benefits from roads.  Even
idiots
> >> such as him buy goods and services that they
> >> couldn't get if it weren't for roads.  Very little of our economy
depends
> >> on transit scams.  Given the far more modern transportation technology
> >> we have available today, tax subsidized mass transit scams should never
> >> have to exist in the first place.  Roads work better and serve far more
> >> people.
> --
>
>  "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force;
>   like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master.
>   Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
>     -- George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
>