We already pay stupid amounts of tax to use sub-standard roads in the U.K. We also already pay by the mile (fuel duty! the more miles you do, the more fuel you use and the more tax you pay).
I worked out based on proposed “pay buy the mile” it will cost me £14 per day to go to work and back, this on top of the £580 per month Income tax and £290 NI. It’s going to cost me £1150 for the privilege of working hard for a month. (These calculations are approximate and I know “we are all in the same boat”) I suppose I could sit on my butt all day at home and get paid for but that’s one for another day!
Obviously this can’t go ahead so what I would like to propose is that nationally we have one day where we do not use our cars at all!! This would of course require massive public support but I think it would cost the fools in supposed power an awful lot of cash and make them listen. It might also get us some fresh air and keep the tree huggers happy.
you can’t fix the ozone with taxes
2007-02-14 00:39:53 · 7 answers · asked by chris c 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
dude there is a patition against that system coming in - SIGN IT EVERY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!
Peace out :)
give thumbs up if u sign it - im trying to keep trak
2007-02-14 00:45:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Labour seem to think that they can tax anything don't they?
I work in 2 jobs - one main job 37 hour week at normal tax rate, eg., tax code 504. On the other job which is only 13 hours a week I pay the basic rate code at 22%. I can't understand why I get penalised for working longer hours to pay my bills and they tax me to the hilt.
With these new road tax's I'm gonna be in a cardboard box but then they'll tax me for that !!
Time for all of us to vote out labour!!!!
Gary H - the buses in Bristol are too expensive. They have just put up their prices in January because they did not have enough customers. They do not have enough customers because they cost too much!
2007-02-14 00:50:19 · answer #2 · answered by Bristol_Gal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Much easier is to follow the example of the Luddites and arrange for our car tracker boxes to go "faulty". Just plug the battery in the wrong way round and "bang". Root cause analysis of the fault couldn't prove it was your doing, after all you aren't an approved tracker box technician are you and "couldn't possibly" understand how it happened could you? You wave your arms around, sh'easy. Alternatively if it's done with smart cards like Sky then there will be a whole new industry of crackers generated who can fiddle with the cards to either change the ID of the owner or the car or any number of variables. It was done with Sky analogue, it's probably been done with Sky Digital (although nobody will own up to it).
2007-02-14 00:48:27 · answer #3 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately we do not pay nearly enough in tax in this country to provide decent services and - for example - public transport. Other countries - Germany for one - have found teh balance whereby people do use their cars and public transport. My feeling is that we need a one-off massive increase in taxes [with protection for those least able to pay] and get Britain moving. How stupid is it for example that hospitals are having to cut services because they are "Over budget". Give them the money; make us pay!
2007-02-14 00:47:15 · answer #4 · answered by Davy B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
www.petitions.pm.gov.uk and click on scrap the planned vehicle road pricing its on the right hand side
2007-02-14 00:46:56 · answer #5 · answered by angie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
try and get enough people to stop paying road tax they cant have it both ways!!!!!!
2007-02-14 00:45:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take the bus.
2007-02-14 00:46:51 · answer #7 · answered by Gary H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋