I'm going to take a guess (and if I'm wrong, I apologize), that you also own a car, which would have a tax on the gas it consumes. Thus, you may in fact be cont

I'm going to take a guess (and if I'm wrong, I apologize), that you also own a car, which would have a tax on the gas it consumes. Thus, you may in fact be contributing to the gas tax, while also riding a bike and having people think you're a freeloader (while also getting to work, paying Federal taxes that contribute to the loans that subsidize the actual construction of the road ways ,etc). I don't own a car, but as the article I linked points out, more than 50% of commuters would need to ride a bike for their commute, before car drivers subsidize the cost of roads for cyclists. It would be then that I would be interested in talks about cyclists contributing extra to the costs of infrastructure through some sort of... tax - that infrastructure would also look amazingly different. One can dream :)