Why dont they just add it to the cost of fuel, same thing in my opinion the more you use through milage and in efficient cars the more you pay, by charging per mile the way government is talking about will involve a developing a complicated and expensive system to track all the vehicles, or is it just that they want to be able to keep track of our wherabouts, and what speed we are doing??
2006-12-02 06:46:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
I am reffering to raods in the UK
2006-12-02 06:50:15 · update #1
I've always lived on the west coast, and we don't have toll roads. We do pay for the roads, though, in state income tax and through gas taxes.
2006-12-02 06:49:06 · answer #1 · answered by lee m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is just how the roads you are driving on got paid for! But they would like to charge you extra to use the roads now, - it also lets them keep track of what everybody is doing and where they are going! This is quite useful when the govt. might decide to control the masses as they wish!! And of course with toll roads, they can let foreign countries "build the toll roads" (using a whole bunch of our cash also), - then the foreign country can collect the toll money (and control these strips of american real-estate for a hudred years or so). This will of course make it easier for NATO to take control of our country at some time, -- becasue if you can't travel, you can't "resist"too well either!
Now if the govt. wishes to remove the taxes on gasoline all together, - and put in tollgates every 5 miles or so, that is another matter! And the states lower the liscence fees down to minimum cost! This would pay for the roads much the same as before, -- but traffic would be slow as usual, and things would be pretty much the same! The only gain is that they would speed up "open road" travel, - and interstate roads, by just charging toll at each tollgate. They would just limit acess so that yhou couldn't get on without paying toll to next gate - where you would have to pay to stay on (to next gate), - or get off there. Here in Texas, there are sometimes 100 mile stretches with no other highways turning off!
2006-12-02 07:08:46 · answer #2 · answered by guess78624 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A very large portion of the amount I pay in taxes already goes to build and maintain roads. Why should I have to pay more?
I understand the idea that charging per mile driven would mean that the people who use the roads the most will pay the most -- but you know government, they will only *add* this tax to the existing tax burden, they won't rescind the taxes we already pay to maintain roads!
Horrible idea.
2006-12-02 06:49:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also think that it is too complicated system to keep track of. The good part is that if the system could be established effectively you will be charged by the deterioration you cause to the roads equitatively and other similar expenses for the maintenance.
2006-12-02 07:07:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it sucks big time, particularly when the residents of the United Kingdom are so very overtaxed in the first place.
2006-12-02 07:09:31 · answer #5 · answered by Eyebee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is ridiculous...it's like paying toll-fee....No, it doesn't sound right, we already paid our taxes to build the roads....
2006-12-02 06:49:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is all about money!
2006-12-02 06:47:26 · answer #7 · answered by Webballs 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋