Trails, libraries should be funded by users

To the editor:

It's time for those who use to pay for it. Bikers pay for your own trails, library users pay for your own library.

As a truck and personal vehicle owner, I pay annual heavy duty road use tax, annual vehicle registration and state and federal fuel tax every time I fill up.

Our local, state and federal roads and bridges are in dire need of repair, yet we take a portion of those tax dollars and put them toward bike trails which only a small percentage of taxpayers use. No different for all of us paying taxes and a small amount of the payers using libraries.

You ride on it, you go to the library - you pay for it. Just like I do when using the roads.

It's past time for this country to do away with the word free. Someone always pays and it's usually all of us taxpayers.

Tom Arp

Cedar Rapids