"Huge" wrote in message
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Adrian writes:
Alan ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Equally, you don't pay anything to use your bicycle on the road.

Spot on.

Except that local roads are funded by local taxation, and cyclists pay local
taxes.


As it happens, nor am I at this point. I just want cyclists to admit
that they get to use the roads for nothing.

I don't get to use the roads for nothing, I pay local taxes.

Then we come to the next point; cyclists want to be treated like
"proper road users" (in actual fact, they mean cars, but if you mention
that, they deny it.) That's fine by me. I want them to be treated like
"proper road users", too; that is, registered, licensed, tested, carry
a registration plate, be prosecuted for their continuous infractions of
the road laws and bled white in taxes. Then they can justifably
complain about the crappiness of the facilities they are provided with,
since they will have paid for them. Whinging about things provided at
other people's expense just shows what kind of people they actually
are.

So, using tiny's "rational" process, we'll be taxing, licensing and
registering pedestrians, who also use "use the roads for nothing".

tiny and rational would appear to be mutually exclusive.