Fine if you have the choice and the resources.
Excuses for what?
Well done!
What if driving was quicker, would you allow it?
Perfectly, but in what way is it relevent to the discussion?
It's not me with the problem, I understand and don't deny the term "road tax". I have made no "false buttumption".
Not me.
You are so sure of yourself aren't you ;-)
Pardon? What are you ranting on about? Why are you twisting what I said to suggest that I think I've bought some road space or another?
Just because some of the more enlightened councils provide facilities valuable to the enrichment of their communities without insisting that only those who benefit directly pay for them, you must not ignore the rest of us who are suffering in the hands of councils who think that cars are the work of the devil and that users of such devices must be persecuted and taxed out of existence.
In what way is private motoring ever subsidised?
So councils only use taxes to fund activities to fund fitness do they?
Motorists provide (on top of all the other taxes that they pay in common with non-motorists) 10% of all government revenue, so don't try and kid yourself that all of that and more in spent on road provision.
Imagine the improvements then if motorists were given road space away from vulnerable communities which would benefit all (i.e. be for the common good).
So why resist creating the obviously necessary extra infrastructure then?
If it looks like a road tax and smells like a road tax then it is a road tax, there's no denying it.
Only if they use the roads.
The DVLA also call it "road tax", which it is.
Except that is is by everyone apart from cyclists apparently
I agree it is not road fund tax, merely "road tax", like I said right from the start.
I would suggest that the bulk of it was in place by the Middle Ages.
Exactly as it should be. Common community resources should be paid for by the community as a whole.
Good. Road provision should have always been provided out of general taxation, of course.
Exactly how it should be. Yet we still seem to be encouraging discrimination against motorists in this respect. Getting into a car doesn't suddenly make someone more likely to "pose a threat" than getting on a horses back or onto a chariot.
-- Matt B
