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Terry: <br /> <br />Your answers are: <br /> <br />Q1: yes, have done, drive them all the time. <br />Q2: Yes, it works better than anything else. <br />Q3: Fine with me, air / road users should pick up the tabe. Guess what- road allready does, has done for some time. Now, we could argue over whether it has yet paid back it's initial development. And you do have fair points on surface streets. <br />Q4: Trucks DO contribute- weight/mile tax , anyone? We tried "reforming" this system to a "fairer" system here in Oregon a few years back, and guess what? Voters said no. AAA said no. The average driver said no. <br /> <br />Why? Because then everyone would have to pay a user fee on TOP of what they pay through their gas taxes now. These "reforms" always equate double taxation. <br /> <br />Q5: Yes, am homeowner <br />Q6: yes, am business owner. Self employed. Why do you think I beleive in fair payment? because these are the rules we HAVE to live by. <br /> <br />So fair is fair. If they get a subsidy because of their contribution to the social fabirc, then I think that I too should receive a subsidy, because my business makes my community nicer. Oh, mister Congressman! <br /> <br />Q7: Yes. Our street was shut down for one year due to widening- for a bike lane no one ever uses. <br /> <br />Q8: I am real. Otherwise why do these bills hurt so much? But then that's no different for Greyhound or Hunt- they just deal in more zeros. So don't balance your kooky ideas on our backs. Us camels can only hold so many straws.
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