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From: The Medway Handyman on 12 Dec 2009 11:14 mileburner wrote: > "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in > message news:qvCUm.14434$Ym4.1210(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... >> >> The first example was libelous and untrue. The second example >> reveals your stunted intelligence. Cyclists do not pay any SPECIFIC >> taxes to use the road and therfore are sponging freeloaders. If you >> have trouble with that concept show me your cycling tax disc. > > I think what TC is trying say is that he accepts that cyclists pay > their dues like anyone else, and may well pay VED for their cars, but > they do not need to buy a licence to use their bicycles on the road. Don't attempt to think, it is clearly beyond your abilities. However much you attampt to twist it, cyclists don't pay a specific tax to use the roads. Note 'specific'. > -- Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist -- Q. Why don't they put pockets in lycra cycling shorts? A. Because cyclists never put their hands in their pockets.
From: Steve Firth on 12 Dec 2009 13:11 MasonS(a)BP.com <MasonS(a)BP.com> wrote: > BP has been named the most environmentally sustainable large oil and gas > company in the world. Sadam Hussein better than Idi Amin or Pol Pot.
From: mileburner on 12 Dec 2009 13:26 The Medway Handyman wrote: > mileburner wrote: >> "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in >> message news:qvCUm.14434$Ym4.1210(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... >>> >>> The first example was libelous and untrue. The second example >>> reveals your stunted intelligence. Cyclists do not pay any SPECIFIC >>> taxes to use the road and therfore are sponging freeloaders. If you >>> have trouble with that concept show me your cycling tax disc. >> >> I think what TC is trying say is that he accepts that cyclists pay >> their dues like anyone else, and may well pay VED for their cars, but >> they do not need to buy a licence to use their bicycles on the road. > > Don't attempt to think, it is clearly beyond your abilities. However > much you attampt to twist it, cyclists don't pay a specific tax to > use the roads. Note 'specific'. I don't think that anyone has questioned that. And what has also been pointed out (which you clearly fail to grasp), is that no-one else pays a tax to "specifically" to use the roads either. VED (or "road tax") is not a tax to allow you to use the road.
From: mileburner on 12 Dec 2009 13:32 MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: > > Would it be OK if all of country's millions of bicycles, which would > be in VED band A (Fee = �0), got a stamped round bit of paper from the > Post Office and stuck it on their frames? Would that do it for you? I > wouldn't mind if it made van drivers gave me more respect on the road. I would happily pay a fee too. But the fact of the matter is that I can't, because there is no-one to pay it too. And if the Medway Highwayman expects cyclists to "pay a tax to use the roads" he ought to be subject to that tax too!
From: MasonS on 12 Dec 2009 13:34
On 12 Dec, 18:11, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: > Mas...(a)BP.com <Mas...(a)BP.com> wrote: > > BP has been named the most environmentally sustainable large oil and gas > > company in the world. > > Sadam Hussein better than Idi Amin or Pol Pot. And yet you give them and their like your money, which pays my wages, so thanks! -- Simon Mason |