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Care to run that by me again? You want to stop car use
entirely?

No, link the tax they pay to the amount they *use* the vehicle
and
thus the amount of pollution they cause - that means that the
tax
should be on the fuel and not the *wish* to use the vehicle.

This would effect business users most and put up the cost of
virtually
everything - including those goods bought by non car owners. Is
that
what you want?

I am not sure whether you are arguing that VED is a good deal for
low
mileage drivers on the basis that they would save because other
costs
would be so much lower or whether you think that equity has no
place in
taxation. If the later you are in tune with NuLabour who have gone
out
of their way to penalise those with taxable incomes below £15000 pa
(who
don't get tax credits) by abolishing the 10% band.

The overall taxation is a difficult thing to assess. Personal
allowances
have gone up as have child allowances etc.
But were you really expecting taxation reductions in the present
economic
climate?

Why ever not, after all didn't Mr Brown-Darling tell us all that
"We've never had it so good" only last week?...

Oh - don't expect them from the Tories either if they get in at
the next election, according to the news this morning. Only in their
second term. And just how they can predict world economics then...


No, they will be using the funds to buy back the family silver Mr
Brown-Blair sold off cheap...