Well TDO, if you aint got the money to pay for using the roads will this be an artificial barrier to the market, in er road space? perhaps we could all build our own roads and charge each other for using them.
"Paying for the roads is basically the use of the price mechanism to allocate a scare resource, just like everything else you pay money for."
what, like a Plate
, so using the price mechanism to allocate a scarce resource such as the road network is ok, but using the price mechanism for plates is not
However there has been so many things written on here already about this that theres no point going over it all again, your either for or against, or, like me , just baffled by the whole thing.
Revenue from motorists has never been about road maintenance. In 2003 just 6 billion of the 40 billion pounds collected in motorist tax was spent on roads. If all the monies over the years collected in taxes had been spent on roads we would have the finest road network in the world, that is without doubt. The fact is all Governments see motorists as a cash cow, all this talk about treating road travel as a luxury is pure nonsense, if the government wanted to reduce road travel they could do it without penalising motorists financially.
If anyone requires any statistics about transport costs they might wish to visit the "Transport watch" site at,
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