| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:They should ban these death machines! | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 03/08/21 08:18:00 |
| Vehicle Excise and the tax duties from fuel and insurance accounts for more revenue than any other single source outside income tax. And VAT is charged on top. Only a fraction of that revenue returns to road infrastructure. Then there's the millions of jobs linked to the Transport industry. And the tax all those businesses and individuals pay. Take that away completely and everyone would have to pay a huge amount more in income tax and all the additional costs of transportation. Healthcare, Pensions, infrastructure, education and benefits would all suffer hugely. Something major that All citizens take for granted would have to go. We have the most expensive rail network in the world and the most complex for it's infrastructure. Out road network is good in terms of safety but poor in terms of connectivity. We also have over 60million people living on an island for it's industrial provenance to provide a living. I've not yet heard a word on how this gets tackled. As for bad driving. It's annoying but at least it's enforceable. Every vehicle has a registration plate, every driver is by law supposed to be tested insured and accountable. Problem is that the focus is on non dangerous offences that can raise revenue with minimum effort, and has been for too long. Cameras cannot catch poor driving. Nor detect illegal or wilful dangerous driving, nor rectify it. They are being used for made up offences by abusing the road traffic act which is there for genuine safety, not revenue raising. But Traffic Police were extremely effective with that. And whilst the populous grows apace and authorities promote overdensification, the Police Traffic division has been reduced to the point of being barely effective. |