There are any number of excellent reasons why employees might choose to bicycle, rather than drive, to their workplaces.
Among them:
* It promotes good health.
* It alleviates traffic congestion.
* It saves money on gasoline and vehicle maintenance.
- It reduces air pollution.
But the federal government doesn't have any business giving taxpayer-funded bonus checks to federal workers who opt to bicycle rather than drive to work.
For one thing, this new federal program might prove counterproductive: It could benefit mainly people who were already bicycling to work -- or planning to do so -- and who will now simply get paid for that choice.
But more importantly, private-sector taxpayers who are entitled to no such bicycling bonus ought not to have to subsidize this new incentive for government workers -- especially when Washington is already $15 trillion in debt!