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So, they are recommending we "pay by the mile".
That's funny, I thought we already did. Or is 50p a litre not enough for these totalitarian cunts?
Where do they expect people to get the money from? We are already taxed until the pips squeek, I cannot see how much longer Brown's "buoyant economy" can be maintained or how the hell anyone can afford any kind of lifestyle at all in this country anymore, it must all surely be on credit now. What is a good wage, it certainly isn't 25K anymore that's for sure. I am running out of reasons to stay in this country, I want a certain lifestyle and quality of life and, even with my optimistic head on, cannot foresee being able to have that in the UK.
Brown is trying to stay afloat by manipulating unemployment figures and creating false levels of inflation (3% my arse, but that's the kind of shit payrises most of us are being insulted with) but there is one hell of a recession happening and we no longer have the productivity to overcome it - the only thing we seem to be exporting these days is jobs to so-called "developing countries"

Not to say I dissagree totally but it's a good read.........

I wish politicians would stop insulting our intelligence by claiming that this proposed "pay-per-mile" racket is all about "the environment" and "relieving congestion".

Utter bollocks. It's just an excuse to impose yet another tax on people, and anyone with a grain of common sense will be able to see that all it will do is shift conjection to the the "expensive" roads (which will presumably be the motorways and major A roads) to the "cheaper" roads (which means that our country backroads will be clogged to the hilt with petrol-belching cars and trucks - so much for a "cleaner environment").

The politicians who impose this tax will - naturally - not be personally affected by it at all, what with their six-figure fat-cat salaries and chauffer-driven limos (which are financed by the taxpayer of course!!). It's ordinary hard-working, low-paid families and commuters who will suffer.

As pointed out in the original post, UK motorists already "pay per mile" in the form of the highest petrol prices in Europe. The whole scheme stinks, and as far as I'm concerned it's nothing more than state-sanctioned highway robbery. Consider this also:

You go to work - they tax you on your earnings.

You need to travel to get to work - they tax you on that too (petrol), and then tax you on it some more (road tax).

With the money you have left after paying tax, you need to buy stuff to live on. And once again, they tax you when you buy this stuff.

You buy a house over 25 years and they tax you on the essentials you need to run it, such as electricity, gas etc. Sell it, and yes - they tax you on that as well!!

You have a little bit of cash left, so you try to save it for a rainy day - and they tax that (if you're not careful) and even if you ARE careful, they still tax it.

Finally you shuffle off this mortal coil, thinking that any money you had left (after they had taxed it so many times) can go where you want to leave it, unmolested (it should now be completely free of tax, surely?!). But NO! They?ll try to get one last slice of that too, as a final farewell gesture.

Come the day they manage to put a tax on umbilical cords, they truly WILL have bled us dry from the womb to the tomb.