Terry,

We put that bike license fee in our survey under the advisement of you and your ilk.

Therefore, when you say:

"there is an outward look that somehow the deck was stacked in the way the questions were asked, and/or social engineering comes into play whereby staff continues to target motor vehicles while being self-serving in not forwarding the bike license fee,"

... it is very disappointing.

I am posting the full results of the survey. What you will see is that the total support for the bike tax is actually very low. There is only 48% support, and 49% opposition. And when that is coupled with the fact that it would raise a neglible amount in revenue, it's just not good policy. A local 3 cent gas tax gets 49% support, and a regional 3 cent gas tax gets 51% support. I also want to point out that these are likely voters for the May 2008 primary elections, which tends to be an older and more conservative group of voters that is generally against new revenue measures for public investments.

I am continually surprised that someone who claims fiscal conservatism is so strongly in favor of creating a new layer of bureaucracy and administration for a new tax that will not raise any substantial amount of money for road maintenance. It makes one believe that you are more interested in sticking it to bikers than implementing good public policy.