🚲 Boebert wants to ban Interior Dept. reimbursement for bike travel

[underpants]

Link to tweet

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Can’t find a link.

[gratuitous]

1. But subsidizing oil companies and mining companies is still okay, right?

After all, you subsidize what you want to encourage and tax what you want to discourage.

[Blue Owl]

2. Why the hell would she even care about this???

It's like Ted Fucking Cruz whining about the Cleveland Indians changing their name to the Guardians -- why does he care, and is it even any of his goddamned business as a politician working for the state of Texas???

These whiny snowflakes need to learn how to shut the hell up...

[NightWatcher]

3. The first rule of being a good republican is to never let a day go by without being an asshole

repukes always take the asshole position on every matter.

Clean water- against.
Clean air- against.
Kids not getting shot at school- against.

They are nothing but trolls, subsidized by corporations and foreign enemies of the USA.

[pandr32]

6. 100% this

[underpants]

10. Racists and polluters

From Goldwater until now - that’s their brand

[Progressive Jones]

15. She's a nobody trying to seem relevant. nt

[rustysgurl]

4. Grasping at straws trying to be relevant.

I'd use the phrase "stay relevant" but pretty sure she never was in the first place.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. I would like to ban Lauren Boebert.

[Botany]

9. Hard to believe she is a high school drop out. Now why would the interior dept. want to do....

.... something good for America's interior? Bang Bang Barbie is too stupid to come up with this stuff
on her own I wonder who or whom is the money and "the brains" behind her?

[Hortensis]

7. Why aren't these liberal subversives just being fired for cause?

Wonder if this is somehow related to Democratic senators introducing a bill that would offer Americans a refundable tax credit on the purchase of a new electric bicycle. The Electric Bicycle Incentive Kickstart for the Environment, or E-BIKE Act for short. It's the companion bill to one introduced earlier this year in the House Boebert dishonors.

E-bikes are more expensive but "can replace car trips for a lot of people, with a recent study finding that if 15 percent of car trips were made by e-bike, carbon emissions would drop by 12 percent. ... Much like the House bill, Schatz and Markey’s legislation would offer Americans a refundable tax credit worth 30 percent of a new e-bike’s purchase price, capped at $1,500. All three e-bike classes would be eligible for the tax credit, but bikes with motors more powerful than 750W would not. The credit would also be fully refundable, which would allow lower-income individuals to claim it."

Driving petroleum burners is heavily government subsidized in a whole variety of ways, and of course the DOI's 70,000 employees are eligible for driving expense reimbursements, but we won't hold our breath waiting for these dark side types to object to that.

[Midnight Writer]

8. The GOP is the Party of Stunts. It is all they have.

[Wingus Dingus]

11. Yes, let's talk travel reimbursement, Campaign Mileage Reimbursement Fraud Lady .

[IcyPeas]

18. Yes, I remember this. Did she get away with It?

[Wingus Dingus]

20. According to Colorado Public Radio, she "returned" some of the mileage reimbursement

and then shifted it to some other type of campaign reimbursement--so she still pocketed the money, it's just not all mileage fraud anymore.

[rickyhall]

12. I bet she's got a gas cap on her ass.

[KentuckyWoman]

13. Cyclists are being reimbursed by Interior??

Is that even an actual occurence?

[underpants]

16. Good question. I'll try to stay on this story.

I have no idea.

[KentuckyWoman]

17. I looked. Not found

My skills with the Google Machine are up there with threading needles these days so....

[alphafemale]

19. There is a tax credit, I think.

Or was.

If you ride a bike to work at least three days a week.

Enacted under Obama.

I newer looked into it very much because I think it was one of hose things you need to itemize to take advantage of it.

[bluedigger]

14. I would avoid travel expense issues if I were her.