Goverment enforced vehicle tracking?

Question

Has anyone seen or heard about the above scheme. Do these people who run our country really live in this world????? I heard about this only today and thought it was a wind up. It isn't. I checked the petition website out for myself and the email I got said the goverment wants us to pay for a tracking device to go in our vehicle and then be charged road tax for what we use. Sounds fair in a way but what about people with small businesses etc. Everything we buy, no matter what it is gets to us by road so everything we buy will go up in price, raising inflation, hen that TO**ER who lives at number 11 Downing Street will want to put up interest rates to curb inflation. Sign the petition at the following link http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/?signed=1
If you think this is a con, go to google and put in a search, look for this link http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36946

Answer 1

It sure is a con, I signed.

Answer 2

You only pay for what you use. If you use more popular roads, you pay more. Makes sense to me. So you are suggesting that normal road users should subsidise the travel expenses of heavy road users such as small businesses? If they can't pay for the travel costs they incur, then it means that their business isn't viable in the first place.

A price mechanism (road pricing) is more economically efficient than shortages (congestion). In fact, overall prices will go *down*.

Answer 3

I think this is a great idea, but only if we can stick a chip up Tony Blairs a**e and track him everywhere he goes.

Answer 4

i got it at work today & now its all over the civil service

everyone gotta sign it

Answer 5

Its all about loss of freedom and fleecing.