Comment 112432

By Dylan (registered) | Posted June 23, 2015 at 20:41:42 in reply to Comment 112429

Why are you citing HST as an exclusive tax on cars and their parts? Maybe I'm ignorant on the subject, but I could have sworn I paid HST on the bike I bought last summer.

With exception to the gas tax which is, in theory, designed to contribute to infrastructure and public transit that benefit the very same people paying it, the fees for driving are nominal and fair, if not too lean. Drivers choose to transit using the least cost effective, highest polluting, and least personally healthy way to travel of their own accord (and in part because other infrastructure is inadequate). Drivers place a strain on our system due to affects on the environment and the health of the population. Cycling on the other hand does the opposite, and youre going to grip that we're not charging little Jimmy's $100 a year so he can rid his bike to school?

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