Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
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no real use but it makes you smile when they fall down stairs!

 

This is going to get posted as much as "motorbikes make you gay" isn't
it....
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Dr Zoidberg says...

Borg still hasn't mastered the art of checking for gingeness.

 

I wonder if he has a practical alternative to the proposed policy.

 

Do we need one?

 

I was including "do nothing". Personally I'd hike up fuel tax and then
let that and increasing congestion on the roads act as the limiter on
traffic. However, I'd prefer vehicle tracking to building more roads,
if they were the only two options.

 

How about roving teams who kill all the incompetent drivers? that's 20%
off the roads.

You should know we already pay more than enough for roads in fuel tax
and VED. IMHO tax on individual items should be a power not available to
govmints and VED should be set by and only available to spend on
drivers' resources.

 

I'd like to volunteer for that difficult and dangerous task, Mr.
Mainwaring. They don't like it up 'em, you know.

 

You gonna top yourself then

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I have his bayonet right here, still stained with Fuzzy Wuzzy blood

 

That's the one from Omdurman, right? Glad to see he never cleaned it.

 

Then we agree to differ. I'm against hypothetical dedication of taxes
- period.

 

Colin Irvine wrote

I'm not I would like it to be all dedication. I would like a system
whereby I could have the total tax of all sorts that I paid during the
year to be totted up and then split between those gummint departments
what I thought needed it on a sort of perm any 5 from 8 idea or
something. That is what I want.

 

I like the sound of that.

Normally, hypothetical dedication, or hypothecation as it seems to get
called, means using Vehicle Excise Duty and Fuel Tax for roads and
such, National Insurance and Prescription Charges for health and
pensions, Television Licence Fee for broadcasting type stuff and so
on. That's what I'm against.

 

That's the one from Omdurman, right? Glad to see he never cleaned it.[/QUOTE]

I think there might be about half a dozen spear heads from Omdurman
sitting in the loft at my parents place. These are 100% genuine ones
that were somehow liberated by a relative who was in North Africa
during the war.

 

Currently they have carte blanche which can't be good

 

Colin Irvine wrote

Snot original, I nicked the idea from a sci-fi story. a 'orrible ending
it had.

 

I've no doubt there was a healthy trade in such relics to British
troops. Yer sand Arab is one of the most resourceful people on earth.