Every Road a Toll Road

Great Britain is looking at a couple of different proposals for "universal road pricing", making every public road a toll road via GPS and black boxes in vehicles. There are also articles by the main proponent of universal tolls, and an editorial from the paper suggesting higher gas taxes instead.

Comments

Re:Here's an idea

[dhogaza]

Buy a Subaru wagon. You don't need a friggin' SUV to get 4WD. Hell of a lot easier to push, too, if you hit ice and slide into a ditch.

Re:Britian would make itself more useless to world

[Rahga]

That's not my active email address anymore.

richardh@rahga.com is now mainly a junk mail address that I screen about every week to see if anything decent is in there. Most people who know me don't use it now, so with 500 or some od emails a week there, maybe 1 out of 2000 emails are personally addressed and sent to me by a real-life person :)

Great... a new tax.

[tcc]

I don't want to flame, but Inflation is one thing, recession is another thing, this and that is very nice but, why is it that they always find CLEVER ways to tax us, that seems so good (like in this case, hey if you use it you pay for it, which of course is acceptable in theory). But when you do the maths, they NEVER reduce taxes the other way around so that it would actually benefit (let's say in this case, people that aren't using the roads) like it is supposed to.

What happens is they put that tax, it's an extra burden on the average class, they won't reduce your federal taxes for infrastrucure claiming they will do more roadwork with the new funds (and 2-3 years after that, it will still be like it was 2-3 years before that, exept you'll have yer ANOTHER tax to pay without any true benefits...)

If they want to get more money, how about trimming all the exceeding balance in their own gestion. Cut those 100$ Restaurants bills, cut that second car that you get for being minister or heck, stop making M.$ studies that you won't even follow just so you can tell us you at least evaluated the idea, if you want to rip us off and have it your own way, no need to zap even more money, money that could be better used.

This is a global problem in north america, Canada suffers from the same problem, big time, look at the federal tax, GST, 7%, funny thing is you pay that tax over the provencial tax, which is HELL to manage, example, if your province has 7% tax, and you buy something that costs 10$, you pay 7% tax on the 10$ and AFTER you pay 7%GST on the new total (10.70) so basically you're paying a tax on the tax. This was for the debt and supposed to stay there only a year or 2 when times were bad, did they remove it? Nope. Did they reduce it? Nope... it's been there for years, they made a promise that it would be gone or there would be tax reduction, nothing seen the light. It's not off topic, it's just an example on where all these "new ideas that will benefit the poor class" gets the votes and in return you get nothing. Remember that some people there are payed probably twice or more what you are doing annually just to come out with new ways to get bigger salaries and budgets.