“As Transportation Commissioner, Sam is continually seeking new ways to provide transportation options to his constituents” – in other words spending the public’s money on pet projects rather than maintaining the infrastructure already in place for those who are actually paying transport taxes instead of just poaching that funding. If Portland belongs to “all of us”, then all modes of vehicle transport, including bicyclists, need to be directly taxed as motorists and motor freight carriers already are. Furthermore, as Transportation Commissioner, Sam needs to not only establish equity in transport taxes with a bicycle tax, but Sam also needs to bring equity to transport citizen committees whereby motorists have, based on mode split and primary source of transport taxes, quantitative direct representation on advisory committees just as alternative modes of transport have nonstop outspoken representation. Currently these committees often recommend spending for special interest projects, make special interest back room deals and propose taxation without direct representation from the group or mode that actually pays the taxes. Maybe it is time to start throwing bicycles in the Willamette River as was done Boston with tea.