who thinks congestion charging is penalising the poor and is just a money making scam?

Answer 1

I believe that the Congestion charge does have disadvantages for those who manage to scrape by and do have a car. Lets face loads of people have cars even if they are poor, so in that way, it does penalise them. It is tax by stealth (forget what MOJO the Labour politician says), I wouldn't mind if the tax revenue from the scheme was reintroduced into upgrading the Tube or introducing new trams or whatever, but it does not, it just goes into the pot and is dished out willy nilly to any half brain scheme this crap Government thinks off next, like spending billions on the NHS and the services not getting any better, or wasting it on some image consultant for the British Armed forces to gain opinion, when they could just ask the lads serving or even spending £30k on road consultants for the local council who teaches kids to cross the roads. Ken Livingstone is a joke, instead of supporting British Values his hero is Castro.

Answer 2

No. And, particularly, how? working a baseball group is a for-earnings business enterprise; no person particularly cares the place the money comes from, in basic terms that there is extra earnings than price. (This, of path, is vastly oversimplified.) and you comment on the great failing of the sales sharing plans applied interior the 1995, 2002, and 2007 Collective Bargaining Agreements -- there replace into, and keeps to be, NO mechanism for imposing that redistributed money get spent in direction of improving the on-field product -- the two the present considerable league roster, annual draft options, or worldwide loose agent scouting. The language makes a instruction that this could take place, yet there is not any mandate, and particularly, it particularly is not enforced because of the fact it may well be unenforcable. What ought to MLB do? super the communities, take lower back the sales dividends, and then -- what? supply the money lower back to the Yankees? there is often the earnings floor determination, yet that doesn't something to motivate clever spending, in simple terms extra spending; it does not impact many communities besides; and, have faith it or not, the union does not prefer it. A floor might set a precedent for a cap, and the union needs not something to do with a cap.

Answer 3

No. The poor don't have cars so don't pay the congestion charge. It is a means ot tackling traffic congestion and it works. Perhaps, rather than the pathetic "stealth tax" whinges, we could have some positive suggestions for an alternative means to alleviating congestion in Central London.

Answer 4

'The poor' don't drive in London, and haven't for years, as it's extortionately expensive with or without congestion charging - 'the poor' use the bus (along with the middle classes and the rich). Congestion charging is a tax on those rich enough to afford daily parking, and a tax on - you guessed it - congestion.

Answer 5

The Government want to make you use the public transport system yet that is priced way too high, so your priced off the buses and tubes, now the pricks want to screw you for using your car you already pay tax on from your already taxed wages. TAX upon tax upon tax to tax the tax.

Of course you and i are being ripped off. It's one big scam because the system can't take it and the politicians have no balls to sort it out.

Answer 6

Does anyone else think that deadman is really Ken Livingstone? lol.

I wouldn't say it's aimed at the poor. More like aimed at the people who actually get up in the morning and go to work.

Answer 7

Truly poor people can't afford a car anyway, they take the bus or tube, like people who don't want to pay the charge can.

Answer 8

Its just another way to tax the motorists
They are trying to make it so difficult for us so we will have to sell our cars and resort to public transport
which we all know is unreliable then when we have
They can charge us top whack for the privilege of travelling on dirty uncomfortable ,unreliable public transport

Answer 9

It is another way of taking our money from us. We pay enough in road fund tax. Surely if they improved our public transport and cust the cost of travelling on it people would be encouraged to use it rather than use their cars during busy periods.

Answer 10

Dunno about penalising the poor,

Central London is where the money is!!

Plus Surely the poor cannot afford cars?

But yep, Just another way to take our hard earned cash!