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TexasTowelie

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2. However, the state sales tax in Colorado is only 2.9%.

Reply to Doreen (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 27, 2017, 01:57 AM

Jul 2017

So for a $200 bike the tax equates to 7.5%, on a $300 bike it would be 5% and even on a $500 bike it would be 3%. A counter argument is that the tax is discriminatory towards bikers.

What is worse is that the bike purchasers are already probably paying 2.9%--the same as those purchasing cars. Are the bikers going to be double-taxed? I think that the bicyclists have some valid concerns.

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Republican lawmaker "a little shocked" by the nerve he struck by floating Colorado bike tax [View all] TexasTowelie Jul 2017 OP

there a couple of ways I see this. Doreen Jul 2017 #1

However, the state sales tax in Colorado is only 2.9%. TexasTowelie Jul 2017 #2

Yeah, I do see your reasoning. Doreen Jul 2017 #5

No surprise he's a Republican... regnaD kciN Jul 2017 #3

Just another republican dickhead that thinks all bicyclists are liberal democrats tikka Jul 2017 #4

Can't you imagine bootleg bicycles from across state lines? no_hypocrisy Jul 2017 #6

Thus giving a new meaning to TexasTowelie Jul 2017 #7