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Petition against road pricing
HugoSP
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This impassioned e-mail recently arrived in an inbox of a relaible source on another forum. These are edited highlights:-
" READ THIS...it takes less than 2 minutes to read and sign. ITS IMPORTANT. IT WILL AFFECT YOU IF YOU ARE A DRIVER.
Sign and send on to all of your mates, because before you know it the nice gentlemen will be taxing us for breathing and that's no longer the joke it used to be!
It was stated on the news that one of the reasons this proposal has been suggested was to raise money for possible road building and improvements to existing roads. It should be noted: of all the money currently collected by the DVLA for road fund licenses, only 23%- 24% is actually spent on road building and improvements!
The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having
to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.
The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver.
A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.
On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will
know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you
can expect a NIP with your monthly bill.
If you care about our freedoms and stopping the constant bashing of the
car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website
Sign up here:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
Mods - could you consider this as a sticky?
" READ THIS...it takes less than 2 minutes to read and sign. ITS IMPORTANT. IT WILL AFFECT YOU IF YOU ARE A DRIVER.
Sign and send on to all of your mates, because before you know it the nice gentlemen will be taxing us for breathing and that's no longer the joke it used to be!
It was stated on the news that one of the reasons this proposal has been suggested was to raise money for possible road building and improvements to existing roads. It should be noted: of all the money currently collected by the DVLA for road fund licenses, only 23%- 24% is actually spent on road building and improvements!
The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having
to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.
The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver.
A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.
On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will
know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you
can expect a NIP with your monthly bill.
If you care about our freedoms and stopping the constant bashing of the
car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website
Sign up here:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
Mods - could you consider this as a sticky?
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heard about this on radio today.Apparently the most signed petition ever on number10 site.
Will they listen though ?0 -
Grrr this drives me potty.
Why not simply abolish car tax and raise fuel duty therefore user pays (and it is cheaper and easier to administer and we don't get spied on even more!)
Please sign if you support.
If not you are of course free to set up your own petition in support of the idea.0
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