You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time.
I fully agree with you Jason; our car only does a couple thousand miles a year, and it's a pain that we have to pay just the same amount of tax as if it did ten times that.
Having said that, if I had a job that involved tens of thousands of miles of driving every year, I'd be complaining about my right to drive freely without being charged per mile/gallon.
Taxing per mile is obviously the fairest way of charging based on road usage, but I'm fully against that due to the cost, complexity and erosion of privacy issues. I'm in the mood for quotes, and just discovered this gem related to loss of privacy and freedoms. It applies just as much to the UK "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
Taxing per litre of fuel would be a far simpler way of achieving a similar result, and is better related to environmental harm. A pain if you drive a V8 monster though It would also tax those who drive around like hoons more that those of us who tootle about slowly
Basicly, I dunno, but a mix of a fixed yearly tax and a fuel based tax seemes the best balance.
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They do that anyway Tbh, as much as I moan about road tax, it's the cheapest thing about running a car alreadyMJ wrote:Taxing per litre of fuel would be a far simpler way of achieving a similar result, and is better related to environmental harm. A pain if you drive a V8 monster though It would also tax those who drive around like hoons more that those of us who tootle about slowly
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'03 S60 D5 SE, '91 (J) MX5, 1954 Cyclemaster
Ex:
'89(F) 340 GL F7R (ex B172k) - Fake -> SBKV 300 Runner Up 08, 12; '91(H) 340 GL B14.4E - Kar; '88(F) 360 GLT B200E - Jet -> BKV 300 Runner Up 09; '89(G) 360 GLT B200E - Beast