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How to pee Off an Arrogant Pedalcyclist 4364
We're enbreastled to the use without paying, and that just sticks in yer craw, don' it? Heh :-) Well, it's gonna stay that way. And there ain't nuffin' you can do 'bout it. Pooooor Jiiiiiimmy...

Only $5300 to go. You can make the cheque out to cash.

Your use of 'we' is inapropraite.

You might not have an official public healthcare system however it is estimated in the US that half of the $1.8 trillion spent on health care is provided by the public sector:

'The public sector will pay for nearly half of all healthcare spending in the United States by 2014 ... at the leading edge of when the baby boomers become eligible for Medicare'

Again, make that cheque out to cash.

Giving the user pay scheme further thought: Those mbuttive superhighways cost much more per kilometer of construction than a meter wide bike path so:

For every km on a bike trail multiply the tax by a factor of 1 For every km on an unpaved road multiply the tax by a factor of 1.1 For every km on a paved single lane road multiply the tax by a factor of 1.2 For every km on multilane city streets multiply the tax by a factor of 1.3 For every km on non-free-way highways multiply the tax by a factor of 1.4 For every km on restricted access multilane freeways multiply the tax by a factor of 1.5

Nonsense. I'm happy to pay my $20.

-- 'We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.' -thomas c haliburton




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