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nouseforaname
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Good public transportation infrastructure should be in place before this kind of thing, which from what I hear, it isn't.
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Jenni
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 10:45 Post subject: |
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On the other side of the coin. Won't petrol/diesel tax be abolished?
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ginge51
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 16:35 Post subject: |
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so has any1 actually signed the petition?
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 16:50 Post subject: |
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 16:57 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | The UK Government is to unveil satellite-based 'pay-as-you-go' plans for national motor taxation this week, with a test of the technology due in five to six years, and implementation (if it goes ahead) after the next election. The planned approach seems broadly in line with the conclusions of the Department for Transport's feasibility study on road pricing, published last year, but is being touted as "revenue-neutral", i.e. the overall level of motor taxation will remain the same. Honest.
That promise flies in the face of the advice of several Labour Party think tanks, and given the likely costs of implementing the technology, may be a difficult one to keep. The Government's stated intent at the moment is to reduce congestion, but effects on traffic levels of varying charging by road, time and congestion level will be difficult to predict, and studies in the past few years have suggested that car use - and hence, congestion - will continue to climb without the discouragement of higher taxation.
The anticipated scheme would cover the whole of the UK, and would use GPS to fix the precise location of all vehicles, with cost at the moment anticipated to range from 2p a mile for deserted stretches of road to £1.30 for the busiest. In principle such a scheme could replace fuel and road tax, but a 'vanilla' implementation would obviously miss gas guzzlers, as price would be entirely distance- rather than consumption-based, so the retention of some form of vehicle-related taxation would appear necessary. |
OK, so they are replacing one tax with another, but this article has a point: aren't they treating a fuel efficient little car the same as a giant gas guzzling SUV?
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 21:58 Post subject: |
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Public transport and it's a waste of money to do this. Fuel emissions correlate to environmental damage. Therefore, tax that it's fuckin cheap to do so. Retarded
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