Rich, I live an a very heavily Amish area and I hear the same complaints about the roads. There is no way under Gods blue sky that an 800 lbs horse and 400 lbs buggy do anywhere near the damage to the road an 80K lbs tractor-trailer do, or a 40K tractor and 12K gallon liquid manure spreader. The farmer doesn't pay any road taxes for that articulated tractor that tears up the pavement or crushes culverts and they darn sure don't go out and scrape the 4" of liquid manure and mud off the highway where they exit the fields.
I know some people just get all riled up about the Amish not having to license their buggies and wagons, but if you want to go that route then you'd better stand by to find a law saying you have to license and register all our farm tractors and implements. Maybe it would be better to look around and figure out how much the Amish are paying in school taxes for schools they never use or in land taxes for social services and other taxpayer funded services they never make use of, all while taking over and putting back into production marginal farm land the English can't make a living off of.
Amish aren't saints and they aren't evil either. They're just people with a little different lifestyle that isn't hurting anyone else, unlike some English that are most certainly hurting other folks. It comes down to bigotry and people need to see that.
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