Do the amish really tear up the roads?

[wildbill59]

Couldn't really understand why a $40 tax on Amish buggies would make any difference. Isn't this just another attempt by the cold hearted Repubs to bash the people in black?<br /><br />Do they really tear up the roads? I've never noticed this. <br /><br />Dem people in black

 

[DJ]

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Wisconsin a Repub. state? Now that is FUNNY.

 

[wildbill59]

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A Repub last year wanted to raise the cig tax $1 a pack. Thought they were the party of small gov. and less taxes.

 

[DJ]

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Maybe a RINO, like McCain?

 

[12Footer]

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Republican, perhaps if the low-life's "take" is enough...<br /><br />Conservative, NEVER!

 

[DJ]

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Liberal-NEVER!

 

[heycods]

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Now now its still christmas. remember the thread.

 

[snapperbait]

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black is white, and white is black... Both parties have become the very things they claim to oppose..<br /><br />Merry Christmas

 

[12Footer]

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Cold-hearted orb that rules the night,<br />Removes the colors from our sight.<br />Red is grey, and yellow white, <br />but we decide which is right -- <br />and which is an illusion.

 

[Parrott_head]

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...And in the naked light I saw<br />Ten thousand people, maybe more.<br />People talking without speaking,<br />People hearing without listening,<br />People writing songs that voices never share<br />And no one dare<br />Disturb the sound of silence.....

 

[Haut Medoc]

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Simon & Garfunkel...The sound of silence...Wrong thread, but not mean..I am still in compliance with the cease fire! I hope that everyones day has been as fun as mine! Merry Christmas!....JK

 

[KRS]

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I dunno, they are using the roads but not paying for them with gasoline tax... so sure, they should pay for their use. We pay WAY more than $40 per year to use the roads when you consider that easily $.47 (does anyone know what the rate is today?) of each gallon of road fuel sold is just tax, mostly to pay for road maintenance and construction, so the politicians say.<br /><br />Also, roads were designed to carry a specific load, the load of a vehicle with rubber tires. It is possible that the smaller footprint of a buggy places more pressure per square inch than a vehicle would, thereby inducing excessive wear on the pavement surface??? Heck I don't know?

 

[CN Spots]

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-"It is possible that the smaller footprint of a buggy places more pressure per square inch than a vehicle would?"<br /><br />Yeah, if it were pulled by a rhino. <br /><br />spots

 

[DJ]

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Nights in White Satin-The Moody Blues.

 

[marcmccain]

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Horseshoes and buggy wheels cause more wear than rubber vehicle tires? Hoofprints and wagon tracks in the asphalt? In that case - you should write your senators and suggest that automobile accidents causing scrapes or scratches on the highways (metal contacting asphalt) should be taxed because of the extra wear and tear on the road surface. That should make all things equal.

 

[FLATHEAD]

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I just hope they use some of the money to pay a guy to clean up all the horse pucky left on the roads. Ain't no fun riding a motorcycle and coming up on a huge load of horse manure across the highway. Been there done that got the Tee shirt.

 

[Nos4r2]

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Gotta agree with that one flahthead, we get a lot of it in the backroads in the UK and for some reason they always do it on a blind corner...

 

[bubbakat]

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Yea those steaming horse biscuits ain't no fun to run thru

 

[gonefishie]

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<br /><br />Gotta agree with that one flahthead, we get a lot of it in the backroads in the UK and for some reason they always do it on a blind corner...<br /><br />

<br /><br />Dohhh! Why you stupid horses <br />Oh man I could just imagine the look on your face.

 

[Bondo]

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Well,.......... I'm with azfyrfyter63,.........<br /><br />Why Shouldn't they pay a Road Use Tax,..???.....<br /><br />I Guess you fella's Haven't Seen what a Steel shoed Horse,+ Steel Rimmed Wagon Wheels do to Paved Roads,..???.....<br /><br />And,.... Your article states that They pay School Taxes,+ Don't use the schools,.........<br />SO WHAT..........<br />I've Not had any children, that I know of,....<br />And,..... I Pay School Taxes,..... Lots of them,.... In 3 Different school districts,.......<br /><br />Should I be Reimbursed All of the School Taxes that I've been paying for the last,..... Oh, 30 years or so...............