Tax the Bikes!
Speculation here and elsewhere is becoming reality....or an attempt is being made:
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel's vision of Chicago as a bike-friendly metropolis found itself in the cross hairs of an alderman's proposal for a $25 bike tax Wednesday.
South Side Ald. Pat Dowell, 3rd, floated a plan to charge bike owners an annual $25 registration fee as a way to raise millions of dollars next year and provide an alternative to the mayor's proposal to hike cable television taxes to bring in about $9 million. Dowell also said she wants to require bikers to take a "rules of the road" safety class.
Emanuel, who this month led a bicycle tour of the Logan Square neighborhood as part of Chicago Ideas Week, said he would look at Dowell's plan. But he then linked his pro-cyclist agenda with recent success in drawing technology firms to the city, and essentially laid out why he almost certainly won't support the idea.
Once the door has been opened though.....
This idea will percolate and they'll figure out some way to make up the fall off in gas taxes and fines.
This idea will percolate and they'll figure out some way to make up the fall off in gas taxes and fines.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
153 Comments:
Who the is going to be the ones enforcing this one? Cops? The meter maids? Are you kidding me? Get out of here on this one. Let me guess, another ANOV. "Squad let me get an event number for a bike license violation." Soon they will attempt to tax and license skate boarding. A wheel tax. Speeding on bikes will be next.
Take a safety class? I've been riding a bike occasionally for over 45 years, far less after getting a car. Who does this idiot think she is, training to ride a freaking bike?
Which one of her schmoe cronies will be paid to "instruct" us pray tell.
Another goofy idea from a legislative body that is a laughingstock, for good reason.
Bikes need plates, stickers and tickets for running red lights, don't worry your money will be spent wisely by the democrat Politburo.
How about ticketing the assholes that ride on the sidewalks where no bike riding signs are posted.
Citizens can travel and shop on line,I
Spend no money in chicago blow me RHAM Daley and all you worthless shit bags.
Shit for brains idea.
Rahm loves the bike.
Look at how many new miles of bullshit bike lanes he's putting in!
Half of those lanes are already fucking up traffic on the streets, and he wants MORE?
Traffic lanes going down to ONE in each direction in placed like the South and West Loop!?!
Great idea,let the aldermen enforce it.
FUCK YOU. I got one foot out the door already. They going to turn this city into a ghost town.
Tax the air we breath,Oh chucks Daley tried it but the feds said no.
Tax them!!. Bikers are like the soup nazis. We painted miles of roads for their personal use. They disregard rules of the road. They think they're better people because they ride bikes.
Wasn't he plugging bikes bikes bikes? He made the bike lanes. And now he wants to tax them? Wow! Pretty sad.
People in Chicago can pay at least a thousand dollars more in taxes, per capita. People have the money, the City just needs to find ways of taking it from them. Big government must have big taxes to support it. Another idea is a professional tax. Charge all professionals, doctors, lawyers, engineers, registered nurses, teachers, CPAs etc. A thousand dollar a year pro tax.
I've got an idea of how to cover the city's budget shortfall . . . Lets throw a dollar into a pot every time a Chicago or Illinois politician pulls a moronic idea out of his ass. We can start with the bike registration.
Go fuck yourselves. I have two bikes. Come and try and tax them you fucking assholes. I'm not registering my bikes. When are people going to wake up and start shoving back? We need a serious revolt in this country. This is just getting ridiculous. Alcohol, water, cigarettes,amusement, junk food, cameras for schools, parks and red lights. Now our bikes? Are we still a free society? Fuck all of you politicians and fuck the idiots who keep voting for them.
Court to Decide if Detroit Really Is Broke
The city filed the case on July 18, and it said about half of its liabilities stem from retirement benefits, including $5.7 billion for healthcare and other obligations, and $3.5 billion involving pensions. How the city restructures its debt may set precedents for other struggling municipalities, bankruptcy experts said.
"We'll see other Chapter 9s," said Kenneth Klee of Klee,Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern in Los Angeles, who is representing Jefferson County, Alabama in its Chapter 9 case. "The pension problem is one that will require resolution, and with the labor relations being strained in parts of the country and some politicians not able to say no to employees and retirees, I expect there will be other chapter 9s to be filed."
On Monday, attorneys wrapped up a three-day hearing on legal authority issues surrounding the bankruptcy as objectors argued that Chapter 9 is unconstitutional and that Michigan's constitution protects pensions from being slashed.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/court-decide-detroit-really-broke-105956538.html
I think bikes should be licensed. WHY NOT? They use the roads. They create "traffic". AND, they disregard traffic signals.
How many blow through stop signs and red lights.
Put tags on them so they can get caught by the red light cameras. About time the city get their money from someone else instead of the smokers, drinkers, and car drivers.
In the shire of Nottingham, formerly the City of Chicago - another great idea to tax the common man.
Here is a better idea - CUT THE ALDERMEN BACK TO 20 DISTRICTS. Get rid of 30 of them and all the associated costs that go along with their little fiefdoms.
Anonymous said...
How about ticketing the assholes that ride on the sidewalks where no bike riding signs are posted.
10/24/2013 12:15:00 AM
I'm sorry...but you Can't be a Cop.
Over 12 years old :: Illegal to Ride a Bike on ALL Sidewalks/ No Signage Required.
Pet Owners too!!! Raise their fees
Pat Dowell is a freaking moron. How did he ever get elected?
Tax the ghetto for wearing their pants down, showing their dirty stinky underwear.
I know, many will enforce this law.
If no money, make them pay with their LINK.
Start writing bicyclists. Most of these hippie transplant jag offs think the rules of the road don't apply to them. So write a few hipster jag offs and teach them a lesson.
It's for the kids!
Bicycles, cable taxes, 'entertainment' taxes, cigarettes. Why does it seem (besides cigarettes) that most of this new money laundering comes from white people activities? How about a taxing the comsumption of chips, barber shops open after midnight and nail polish?
How about withholding (i.e. cutting) a certain percent of all the government hand outs they're giving to the animals like they do from people's paychecks who actually work for a living through income taxes. Oh wait, that would cause the animals to revolt and offend the main dumbocrat constituency. I guess it's easier to just keep raising taxes on those who work so we can provide for those who won't.
Maybe then can simply reduce spending?? Start with cutting the number of wards in half.
South Side Ald. Pat Dowell, 3rd Ward, made the suggestion because she knows there are not many adult bike riders in her ward.
You can take all the "safety classes" you want - but who's going to ENFORCE the rules? About 99% of the jagoffs on bikes in the city are cutting in and out of traffic, blowing lights, riding the wrong way down the street, riding in-between vehicles... I'm surprised more of them aren't dead...
"You can have my bikes when you pry them from my cold dead hands"
From the article:
"Emanuel nodded at the difficulty of enforcing such registration, especially in a city with entrenched violent crime. "I surely don't want police involved in policing whether you bought a bike license," he said."
Well, whadaya know, the Mayor talking sense. Had to happen sooner or later, I suppose.
I used to ride a bike too, when I was 14.
Tax the bicycles and put off the pension payment for another 7 years. Great job, King Rahm.
Don't laugh, this is a tactical warriors wet dream. they will lock up kids in droves who don't have a licensed bicycle. Just imagine, 10 tactical warriors on the arrest report. Then they can go take a 3 hour lunch out of district and talk about how the guys in uniform are such dogs.
>Snicker!<
This is going to be fun watching the screaming and crying from the obnoxious "militant bikers" who will be getting the L.E. attention they actually crave... Based on the truly stupid and dangerous traffic stunts everyone witnesses them pulling on a daily basis.
"You may not give a shit about YOUR safety, but have a little consideration for the friendly neighborhood Policeman or Paramedic who has to come out and drag what's left of your dented bike and carcass from underneath a vehicle."
>ANOV & a smile!<
Pedalcyclist has gone in box #1 on MANY a crash report.
*WAH! Arean't the big, bad, EEEVIL cars are ALWAYS at fault?*
Can you say ONE TERM MAYOR.
Too many aldermen = Too many stupid ideas!
Shoe tax, a stamp on each shoe that touch a chicago sidewalk. That should take care of all the problems say 10.00 a shoe
If I were working in 011, this is what I would do. I would take my humper and stop as many people as I can. I would arrest as many people as I can. Every single time I stopped someone or arrested someone, I would tell them my reason (i.e. you were talking on your cell phone, you are drinking on the public way, etc...) and I would show them my humper/activity sheet. I would tell them who wants all of that activity too. Why not? Everything I am asked to do is perfectly legit. I did exactly what I wrote out above two years ago. My sergeant counseled me for no activity. So I stopped people and arrested people. I told them I was being ordered to bring my numbers up. I swear, if some people in 011 and brains and balls they sure are not using them.
License lawyers. The government supports their playground and they pay only minimal fees. Use the fees to pay for the courts. If you want to go after someone, pay for the use of the building through the license fees. Some lawyers make millions and their profession gets supported by tax dollars. We pay for the buildings, judges and support staff. Its about time they take responsibility for SOMETHING.
How about ticketing cars making Hollywood glides at stop signs?
How about ticketing cars making those trendy right turns from the left lanes to get around other cars waiting for pedestrians?
How about ticketing cannabis smokers? Wasn't the mayor's legalization gimmick gonna fix the debt?
In the coming years police officers will become nothing more than revenue agents for corrupt Democrats.
This might work in Englewood? ROTF
Bikes are the answer to dangerous and rapidly increasing global warming. We must tax automobiles/trucks and gasoline so much that people will not want to own or drive one. Bikes or clean public transportation will be the main means of travel. But at the same time bikes must be heavily regulated and moderately taxed. Also we must get the majority of cops out of polluting squad cars and either on bikes of small motor cycles. Squad cars must be rare and biker spandex common with the new CPD. Global warming must be stopped in it's tracks. Other steps will be taken but they will not affect the PD as much.
Great idea! Don't forget to include those wheelchairs, skate boards and damn roller skaters also. The fines should double for those violators wearing Lance Armstrong type spandex.
It's simple the more popular bikes become and the more of them there are, the more money you can get out of regulating and taxing them.
We are paying a greater percentage of income to taxes today than before, during or after the Second World War. Think about the massive buildup for the war and taxes were still lower. I'm not for any tax but the traffic code training I would agree on if it only applied to the lawless group known a Critical Mass. They tie up traffic, disregard traffic controls, unlawfully and without authority block vehicular traffic, terrorize pedestrians, exhibit civil disobidience, have a contempt for lawful authority, namely police officers. Maybe the training could include acceptable hygenic and bathing practices, acceptable dress standards while in public and respect for authority in a civilized society. This group has a history of confrontations with police resulting in injuries. Having said that, police officers still associate and participate in the mayhem which this group sponsors. Whose side are these officers on and where is their loyalty?
whats next? , a tax for walking in the city, THIS is a mayor and city out of control. cant wait to leave...
Hey stumpy mayor, why dont you trim up your useless staff and rid of them multi-millionare money crook aldermen!!! perhaps you can free up a few dollars there sharpie!! your ways are pathetic and unjust, you sure are that stumpy crusty dried up wart in the cities ass, i sure hope the people removed your dumb ass from office asap!!!!!!
Hey Rahmbo, tax deez nuts!!
logistics aside...I would love to have a bicyclist riding the wrong way down a one way street /disregarding stop signs or traffic signals--be held accountable. Stop them for the traffic violation- unregistered bike? fine them...unregistered bike and unable to produce identification- impound the bike....we could have Lts be the "bike overlords" (its not like they do most of the DSS stuff- hidden sgts and pos do it)
What about the poor people who can't even afford to buy bicycles and must steal their bikes? Huh? This discriminates against them! Therefore the original owner must continue to pay the registration fee; stolen bike or not.
But Rahm loves his bike.....
I had to look this Bolshevik moron up. Sure enough, all my preconceived notions about her were spot on. Typical jagbag Democrat: raise taxes--nee strongarming taxpayers of hard-earned money.
MF
How about reducing the aldermen by 25? That would save so much more $.
If this ain't one of the danm dumbest ideas.
These asses in office here are so damn backwards wit their way of thinking. Always coming up with some stupid way of taxing people. tax tax tax. I don't shop here and never will; as many of us cross into Indiana.
Here's a challenge; reduce ALL taxes across the board... state income; gas; sales; entertainment; hotel; business; corp; etc.. Do it by at least 25%. WATCH HOW JOBS WILL BE CREATED; PEOPLE WILL SHOP AND SPEND.
This place is a fucking dictatorship! Nothing but fucking handoffs to people who abuse the system. The fucking revs are a joke; they live good and keep the crime going so they can stay in business.
Crime? Yea, cancel each other out; and with a new cig tax; I might start selling loose squares on the corner. I can conceal and carry now so I can protect my turf!
Depressing!
I'm convinced that the city council is nothing more than a think tank on how to come up with new tax ideas (ridiculous as they may be) to squeeze every last nickel and dime out of tax paying citizens. Businesses and families will continue to exit the city and fewer and fewer will want to live here. Get out now if you can, it's a sinking ship.
I don't know who Tony Sorenson is, but his comment on the Trib site warrants a look:
Tony Sorensen · Top Commenter
Tax his land, tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Tax his pants, tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirts,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.
Tax his chew, tax his smoke,
Teach him taxes are no joke.
Tax his car, tax his grass,
Tax the roads he must pass.
Tax his food, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his sodas, tax his beers,
If he cries, tax his tears.
Tax his bills, tax his gas,
Tax his notes, tax his cash.
Tax him good and let him know
That after taxes, he has no dough.
If he hollers, tax him more,
Tax him until he's good and sore.
Tax his coffin, tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
"Taxes drove me to my doom!"
And when he's gone, we won't relax,
We'll still be after the inheritance tax.
Welcome to Chicago! Now give me that iPhone!
*that final line makes it just (kisses fingers) perfect
So, let me get this straight. The aldercreature wants to tax bicycles but doesn't want to raise the amusement tax on cable tv? So it's better to sit on your fat a$$ and watch tv than exercise? I guess, looking at her picture, it is.
How many of Dowell's constituents would be paying this tax?
Anonymous said...
Go fuck yourselves. I have two bikes. Come and try and tax them you fucking assholes. I'm not registering my bikes. When are people going to wake up and start shoving back? We need a serious revolt in this country. This is just getting ridiculous. Alcohol, water, cigarettes,amusement, junk food, cameras for schools, parks and red lights. Now our bikes? Are we still a free society? Fuck all of you politicians and fuck the idiots who keep voting for them.
10/24/2013 02:27:00 AM
Last I heard, it cost $50 a year to let my dog keep his balls (unneutered dog license.)
Run, do not walk, to your after-school program at Gill kids! And remember, crime is down.
http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2013/10/unsafe-passage-victim-robbed-behind.html#comment-form
HERE'S A BETTER IDEA! Let's tax the Alderman's bribes. A ten percent tax should just about balance the city's books in one year.
It appears that the city
council has degenerated into
one big a** finance committee whose sole function is
to find ways to generate
more and more tax money from
city dwellers. And these aldermen and women are so
full of sh** that they are
brown around their mouths.
Heaven help the beleagured
Chicago taxpayers, especially those that own
property and vehicles.
Anonymous said...
Tax them!!. Bikers are like the soup nazis. We painted miles of roads for their personal use. They disregard rules of the road. They think they're better people because they ride bikes.
10/24/2013 12:55:00 AM
I'm not a better person than you because I ride bikes. I'm a better person than you because I use my brain.
Now head off to Hammond and buy some cigs at a discount. More money for me in the pension fund!
As for biking it's actually a faster method of transportation for short trips in many congested hoods.
Unless you're driving to Hammond for your cigs. Then you need a car.
Don't laugh now, but remember when we were kids and you could get those small license plates with your name on it to attach to the handlebars or the seat springs ? Let's hope
these don't reappear with
city of chicago and a number
stamped on them.
If I ride my unicycle to work would it only cost $12.50? Just saying...
- Bike lane tolls and bike red light/speed cameras.
- Tax atlethic type shoes to discourage evading bike taxes.
- Bus stop shelter use fee.
- Lawn watering hose tax on hose lengths longer than 25ft.
- Business Sidewalk use and upkeep fee.
- Alley & Driveway Parking Permits.
- iPhone Owners ID card (IOID)
- Outdoor bird feeder and bath fee.
- $100 phone surcharge for NOT calling 9-1-1.
Daley and now Rahm as totally fucked up traffic and police response time by putting in all those useless flower pots in the middle emergency lane (TERRIBLE IDEA). Now it's even worse with all these bikes lanes. Traffic and parking is even more horrific and to be honest, I think their will be more bicyclists hit by cars now because of the layouts of the bike lanes. Rahm is so bent on making Chicago a bicycle town but does little to nothing about the out of control public safety. Always money for everything else other than cops. He's such an idiot
Oh thank you Democrats once again. You have found a way to get even more money from us. I am sure the money collected will be just like the mayors purposed super tax on every Chicago resident and business owner to help pay for the pension crisis. He said we will collect the tax now, but we won't make the contribution until 2023. Steel from us now with the promise to fuck us latter. I wonder if Rosemont taxes people who ride a bike? I wonder how all the NATO folks who supported Mayor E. feel about this tax, and fee? Chicago can go fuck themselves. I will be right behind all the convention folk who left Chicago, riding my bike to a new city.
Only Chicago, you can buy a million dollar boat and not have to take a licensing class, but buy a bike and you got to pay for it!!!
Question--does anyone think there might come a time when bikes are not allowed downtown, or you will need a special license to bike ride there? I realize Rahm is a big bike supporter now. I also think it's only a matter of time before we have some nasty fatals involving tourists riding bikes down Michigan Avenue. And why doesn't Divvy rent helmets? I'd say 98 percent of the people riding Divvy bikes don't wear helmets. Granted, if you are an adult it's your responsibility to wear a helmet while riding a bike. But if the city could detour people from making dumb choices, that seems like a good thing to me.
Every weekday morning around 7:50 am, I'm on Clark Street by Latin School. Between there and Wacker, I always see bike riders darting between buses, nearly running over pedestrians, in crosswalks, etc, and many don't wear helmets. I know not all bike riders are like this,b ut I noticed at least two daily who are. Frankly, it seems to me that reasonable people would not ride their bikes there during rush hour. You can be as reasonable as you want on your bike, but you can't make car, bus and truck drivers be reasonable.
Don't forget the messenger assholes and I wonder if you will have to call in a chase when they try to ride away.
Why don't you just tax me for my foot traffic on the sidewalk while you're at it?
Will you charge by the number of steps I take?...............
Better yet, why don't you just tax the farts too. Everybody farting will cause air pollution, right?
Oh, here's more revenue streams:
1. Tax the air we breathe, the amount of tax depends on lung size
2. Tax us for looking at someone hard, the amount of tax depends on if a fight breaks out
3. Tax us for not getting the hell up out of here quicker, the amount of tax depends on how long we stay
tax bikes? stupid idea. Tax the fucking pedicabs. They asshole ride and do whatever they please, tax and license them!
Dude aint got time for no bike ass class......
Fuck you. I got bikes, never ride them in this shit hole. I try do do everything, shopping, recreational, vacation, anything outside the county or state.
Tax the bikes but not cable - this shithole called Chiraq has really outdone itself this time. I'm not paying shit, and I'm not taking a class either.
--No Cop Here
He is in Way over his head! He should have the balls to just resign. Save some face, you fucked up. Your ego is way to big, and chance of furthering your political career (that was surly his main objective) is over. Move along, grab a beat car, and let the FOP get some work done.
This is the best our elected officials can come up with? What a joke!
Didn't Chico have a commercial "pay the rahm tax?" Why yes he did guess Gary was correct!since we don't have enough police to even reinforce traffic violations will rahm get more cameras to follow bikes around? Will license plates be required to identify the nefarious biker? If my 6 year old speeds will he be ticketed, if he does not have a license plate will bike be taken and him arrested put in baby jail? When does this shit end?
(attn, McNumbnuts) OT, Violent crime up 15%...
Survey marks 2nd year of crime increases
~~ snip~~ '...violent crime in America went up 15 percent last year and the property crime rate rose 12 percent, signals that the nation may be seeing the last of the substantial declines in crime of the past 20 years.' ~~snip~~
"Crime is (hic) down.. hic. Gimme another Mar(hic)tee-neee there (hic) Lance....(hic)".
What an embarrassment these Alderfools are. I wish they would stop talking. All they know is tax tax tax and totally senseless taxes too. They are driving productive people out of chicago.
God are these Democrats incompetent Imbeciles.
socialist government/shitcago values
Yet another Democrat-sponsored boondoggle to rape the tax-paying citizen and divert monies to the thieves and parasites of Chicago. FOAD!
No hope for this commie-controlled city anymore. None.
Get out while you still can.
I have a motorbike and refuse to buy a license
Get rid of your bodyguards and political middle management bs city jobs, 30 alderman before you put a tax on bikes you jerk off
An across-the-Board Tax on EVERY Chicago, Crook County, and State of Illinois Politicians income of 20% would be more logical, successful, easier, and cheaper to implement. Lets do that instead.
Not only should each bike bear proof of licensing, each bike operator should provide proof of liability insurance
Bike registration will end up like gun registration. When they tax bicycles....Only outlaws will have bicycles....
He Rham was on the news saying he didn't want a mass exodus of disgruntled chicago citizens by constantly going up on everything! He must realize he is right on the edge of that or already surpassed that point by which people,don't want to drive on streets that have cameras,go downtown to pay astronomical fees to park,buy cigarettes,or even take one breath too many for fear of a charge or fee of some kind!
I have a motorbike and refuse to buy a license
Get rid of your bodyguards and political middle management bs city jobs, 30 alderman before you put a tax on bikes you jerk off
first off i am cpd officer and im a bike rider ald dowell is a racist and a hater. it sounds to me that she going after the tax payers and not the mutts. the mutts that smoke a square while riding a bicycle , what a perfect healthy way to stay in shape. also ald hater, what about your residents that ride bicycles and sell dope can we impound the bicycle
signed
016th district ranger
More then once while driving on the north side in the early evening, I nearly ran over a biker who was wearing dark clothing and no lights or reflectors on the bike or person. A real death wish knowing that it is hard to see someone on a bike at night and countless people are distracted drivers. Some sort of happy median needs to be made regarding people on bikes. I gues you can force them to buy registration and if caught without you can impound the bike. This would be a fine job for the historically corrupt Dept. of Revenue agents.
I have a bike with no seat. Tiny dancer can go BMXing on it for free!
He'll years ago in the early 70's in Oak lawn we had to register our bikes with the police! and this involved a small fee so it's about time the bike dorks start paying for the reduced lanes of traffic for cars and all the roads.
Not to mention most of them ride like tools
Why not tax wheelchairs next?
MCC 9-52-010 thru 090
9-52-010(a). Subject to rules of the road
9-52-040 bicycle yield the right of way
9-52-040(c) ride bicycle as near practible to right hand side do roadway.
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We should enforce bikes more, they ride like jags cutting thru traffic don't stop almost run people over, not to mention in the urban hood most of the studs run the package that way or the dude carrying the strap. For you younger officers on foot patrol that means the guy on the bike has the re up package of drugs or he is the security guy on the bike with the gun.
For all you morons on this site crying about the revenue, we'll then come up with an idea to generate revenue, we need outside the box thinkers throwing ideas out there or soon our pensions will be a thing of the past, then what you going to cry to shields or whoever else is there.
Hey !!!!!! Wake up it's your money, get YOURSELF involved
How about a 50 Dollar ANOV for blowing thru stop signs..
What about my Big Wheel?... Cooter
socialism, Democratic party, liberal policies....lead to the destruction of America as it has been known....anyone see it coming?
Be honest- Did anyone really think it would get this bad? What has our country, state, county and city come too that these bafoons are trying to tax everything. We might as well be under british rule again.
Gee, what a FUCKIN" coincidence!!!!During the spring when the bikes lanes were being painted and the poles installed ( VENECKO GENERAL CONTRACTORS )was it not mentioned that we would be seeing a proposal to tax/license bikes in the future??? Simply shocking, I tell ya!!!! ( sarcasm off )
Pat Dowell is a female. She defeated Darcel Beavers in that ward.
"Some sort of happy median needs to be made regarding people on bikes."
Bike path right down the middle of the road - I like it.
rahm should start charging all city employees and visitors $3.00 for entering and exiting the city owned parking lots including everyone-districts, areas, headquarters, etc. or does the LAZ contract have a no-competition clause.
walking to fst for conditions should be a city ordinance violation.
"No taxation without representation"
is a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized a primary grievance of the British colonists in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution. In short, many in those colonies believed that, as they were not directly represented in the distant British Parliament, any laws it passed taxing the colonists (such as the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act) were illegal under the Bill of Rights 1689, and were a denial of their rights as Englishmen.
The phrase captures a sentiment central to the cause of the English Civil War,
Good idea.
Why should motorists be the only people fucked with here in the sanctuary city?
Most of these bike lane users are hipster, anti-car assholes who obey no traffic laws.
They ride around 014 paying no attention to signals, daring people to hit them.
Man, has this city changed......
Dowell's proposal is the equivalent of Alderman Tunney wanting to tax chicken wings and rib tips. Wouldn't really effect Dowell's "Non-bicycle-riding" "constituents". Clever, still, on her part.
Tax toilet paper,that way every asshole has to pay.
I will register my bicycle out of state. Dumb dumb!
Use you bikes to zoom down Rahm' new speed camera's a dozen times a day.
It will drive the photo guy in an off shore country nuts that is probably making 12 cents an hour.
The flashers on these units will get a good use flashing every two seconds.
Doesn't matter folks.
As my Dad would have said, save your breath for hot potatoes.
The tanning salon tax went into effect in 2010...LOL.
And no one spoke up how this tax targeted
whites.
First they came....
Just a media move to take attention away from the speed cameras.
I'M sorry but you can't be a cop!
People biking are now allowed to ride on the sidewalk for short distances to access the nearest roadway, bike path, intersection or bike share station.
New ordinance here: https://chicago.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=1424497&GUID=3B66E88E-2D36-4EBC-B5C8-6012A18F3986&Options=Advanced&Search=
I came out of the Academy in 72, retired, and live in Lakeview. There are "no riding bikes on sidewalks & subject to fine" signs posted on damn near every corner, and the adult assholes still fly down the sidewalks with impunity. Since you're the real police, when is the last time you wrote some jagoff for riding on the sidewalk? Let me guess, NEVER!
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Anonymous said...
How about ticketing the assholes that ride on the sidewalks where no bike riding signs are posted.
10/24/2013 12:15:00 AM
I'm sorry...but you Can't be a Cop.
Over 12 years old :: Illegal to Ride a Bike on ALL Sidewalks/ No Signage Required.
38 more days & you can KMA! I'm outta here. Florida is not the only state that is a giant sinkhole. Get out while you can.
Let's see how the enforcement goes with 70+ minute 911 response times currently seen in 019 on the weeknights and weekend nights. The biking crowd isn't a cog in the system, sorry to burst your bubbles. And to the jag who said "i used to ride when i was 14", you gonna say that to the off-duty cop who was killed mountain biking? Didn't think so. So shut the fuck up, fat ass fuck.
I'm a cyclist but I'm not stupid/insane enough to drive on most bike paths because other idiot cyclists. And like any city program, a prospective "bike tax" will cost twice as much as it takes in, requiring a fare hike and special taxation at bike stores.
ot: any of you folks know about a female LT from 018? had an incident today and she was there and it felt like we were talking two different languages.
Hahahahahahaha!
Unlike most disorganized special interest groups, the bikies will join together and make SURE this will never happen.
Hey Mr Mayor, can I get a raise??
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government says the rate of violent crime in America went up 15 percent last year and the property crime rate rose 12 percent, signals that the nation may be seeing the last of the substantial declines in crime of the past 20 years.
Let's see if critical mass is willing to pay a bike tax. Haha
Pat Dowell is a freaking moron. How did he ever get elected?
10/24/2013 05:49:00 AM
Pat Dowell is a woman.
Rahm has no chance next election. Haven't run into one voter in this city who said they are voting for him. The media can get there grip off his nuts he's done!
How about a critical mass down the mayors block. Anyone?
God I hate calling that criminal the mayor. He's a tyrant against the working class.
Bikes can be written for most traffic offenses under the code 9-52-010(a) Subject to Rules of Road on an ANOV. No one over the age of 12 may ride a bike on the sidewalk. Hammer away on the mutts riding the rental bikes.
The City is great on big, bloviatin bullshit talk and then does nothing when they pass a new law or post another ordinance., Had a No Thru Traffic Allowed Signs posted at each end of a heavily travelled Alley being used as a thru street, about 5 years ago. Thru traffic still as frequent as ever. Amount of traffic Citations written by CPD for constant violators, ZERO. Democrat Blowhard Leadership in action. All talk, No Followup Action.
Red light cameras, speed cameras, increased water rates, increased city sticker rates, increased parking fines,and now they want us to pay $25.00 a year to ride a bike. We don't have money to hire more police but we have 55 million for a Maggie Daley park. We read how the well connected get a super deal with their restaurant in Millenium Park. The politicians and their little click of friends get rich day after day at the working mans expense. Enough is enough. It's time to head out of town. We are loosing tons of money every day because our legislators can't agree on how to open a Chicago casino.
Big changes coming today ( Friday) stay tuned... Wait till you hear what's coming and who's going to be in charge!! Do the initials LTB ring a bell??
Tax his land, tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Tax his pants, tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirts,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.
Tax his chew, tax his smoke,
Teach him taxes are no joke.
Tax his car, tax his grass,
Tax the roads he must pass.
Tax his food, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his sodas, tax his beers,
If he cries, tax his tears.
Tax his bills, tax his gas,
Tax his notes, tax his cash.
Tax him good and let him know
That after taxes, he has no dough.
If he hollers, tax him more,
Tax him until he's good and sore.
Tax his coffin, tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
"Taxes drove me to my doom!"
And when he's gone, we won't relax,
We'll still be after the inheritance tax.
Ya, I'll write these as soon as I'm done getting despersals and contact carding old women.
Dowell's proposal is the equivalent of Alderman Tunney wanting to tax chicken wings and rib tips. Wouldn't really effect Dowell's "Non-bicycle-riding" "constituents". Clever, still, on her part.
10/24/2013 07:20:00 PM
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Ok, that's it. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT FUCK WITH RIB TIPS.
Are the DIVVY bikes exempt...?
Just sayin.....
I don't know who here thinks that no one rides bikes in Ald. Dowell's ward, but I live in Bronzeville, and there are plenty of bike riders scooting about on King Drive, of all races.
I enjoy riding my bike here in the city as well. I won't miss the $25 license fee if it's put the task proposed bike education & safety. I see far too many of my biking brethren coming dangerously close to causing accidents due to a complete lack of knowledge as to compliance with the traffic laws. If this can change as a result of the license fees, it's worth it.
But that would be unfair to the poor! It would be biking suppression! The poor would be unable to afford the tax. It's discrimination....right?
I agree w the Alderman, everyone else is carrying the burden of getting nickle and dimed to death...
These bikers who violate every rule of the road can cough up some change...
Don't forget stationary bikes at gyms also.
More and more people are fleeing Illinois to avoid the outrageous taxes,legalized extortion and high crime.
Please leave my little red wagon alone.
Ok let me picture the radio call.
"One Adam 12, One Adam 12 we have reports of a naked man wearing nothing but a Captain America mask and carrying a AK-47 and a bazooka at Clark and Newport are you available".
"Dixie,(ok maybe I'm getting my sixties cop shows mixed up) I'm sorry I'm writing up a bunch of unlicensed bike and tricycle riders at the Jewel on Broadway. This could take awhile. They're real desperados."
"Understood One Adam 12 don't let those criminal types get away without paying their fair share. Rahm says leave no dollar behind. Fire Department responding to multiple explosions at 3500 N Clark. Any units not involved in money making activities please respond".
Silence on the radio.
"Any units not involved in writing parkers or "bikers"? please respond to the domestic terrorist incident involving naked Captain America in Wrigleyville".
More silence.
Voice breaks on radio. Sounds like a combination of an overcaffeinated kid with ADD and some rich twit from Wilmette.
"All units this is Big Daddy Rahmbo looking for the Rubber Ducky. Rubber Ducky are you out there?"
Voice breaks on radio has a distinctive Brooklyn accent and sounds mildly inebriated.
"Big Daddy, this is the Rubber Ducky we will be right on the naked Captain America incident with the multiple fatalities right after, loud long belch heard on radio along with the sounds of gunfire and breaking glass?"
End of Transmission.
This Moron idea would never come from a White alderman who has adult bike riders in her Ward. The new sport would be taunting cops and having them chase you in their cars while you ride away through sidewalks and gangways until someone gets hurt. Then there is the Real Money issue; the bike rentals. These blue bikes are friends of Rahm, and if people have to take a training course to ride the rental bikes, well that is the end of that political contribution. The Alderwoman who put this out there needs to go back to her Ghetto and worry about crime issues.
I would never, eved register any bike to this idiotic city. Hell i stopped registering the guns i have purchased 13 years ago. The city can kiss my a**. Registration....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....yeah right
Big changes coming today ( Friday) stay tuned... Wait till you hear what's coming and who's going to be in charge!! Do the initials LTB ring a bell??
10/24/2013 11:38:00
Little Tommy Byrne? Okay, how many more guesses do I get? Changes! Yippee!
A white person tax... if you notice the majority of bike riders are white.
Rahm has no chance next election. Haven't run into one voter in this city who said they are voting for him. The media can get there grip off his nuts he's done!
You are kidding, I hope or smoking something. There is not one democratic candidate that would have a chance against him, but in your mind you probably think a republican can beat him.
Bike lanes? Who gives a shit about bike lanes. Ever seen anyone get a ticket for driving on one? NO! Go around the bike like you do where there are no bike lanes and drive on. Dedicated lanes are useless and intrusive and I don't let them hinder my travel.
Rahm has no chance next election. Haven't run into one voter in this city who said they are voting for him. The media can get there grip off his nuts he's done!
You are kidding, I hope or smoking something. There is not one democratic candidate that would have a chance against him, but in your mind you probably think a republican can beat him.
10/25/2013 02:35:00 PM
Who gives a fuck who runs against him you kiss ass. Get him out of here.
Didn't Chico have a commercial "pay the rahm tax?" Why yes he did guess Gary was correct!since we don't have enough police to even reinforce traffic violations will rahm get more cameras to follow bikes around? Will license plates be required to identify the nefarious biker? If my 6 year old speeds will he be ticketed, if he does not have a license plate will bike be taken and him arrested put in baby jail? When does this shit end?
Yes he did and he also warned us!
One rocket scientist bike rider said, we shouldn't be taxed automobile drives should be. Ever hear of city stickers and license plates moron.
Considering the accidents they cause 25. is cheap. Not including the critical mass riders that disrupt citizens and the cost of police for their nonsense. Tax them!
I know I would ticket the bike assholes. They are all over the place. They have their own lane and Rahm loves them. Is hat not enough for a ticket?
I would never, eved register any bike to this idiotic city. Hell i stopped registering the guns i have purchased 13 years ago. The city can kiss my a**. Registration....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....yeah right
Ah yes another shit head with guns.
A naked man running around with a mask on? That is really close to my pretty loft. I will disarm him and then I will punish him severely.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
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