Hey Scott, you didn't "strike a nerve." You made an incredibly dumb proposition and received the appropriate backlash for proposing something so stupid.

1) The revenues from your proposal wouldn't even be enough to cover the costs of administering it, so you'd cost the taxpayers more rather than enhance road/highway funding.

2) Nearly all cyclists also have vehicles, so they pay the same taxes as everyone else. Your proposal is stupidly punitive, singling out a group whose actions benefit our society and automobile drivers.

3) Colorado's image as an outdoor recreation Mecca, which includes being a cycling friendly state, is a huge economic draw. It's one of the reasons we won the outdoor retailer show away from Utah. Your idiotic proposal is counter-productive to the development of Colorado's outdoor-based economy.

That you were shocked by the backlash only further demonstrates how ignorant and out of touch you are.

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