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 From: steve@walker-family.me.uk 
  
 On 12/10/2019 14:52, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: 
 > In article , 
 >     Steve Walker  wrote: 
 >> On 11/10/2019 11:10, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: 
 >>> In article , 
 >>>      JNugent  wrote: 
 >>>>>> Surely you don't think VED actually pays for road upkeep? 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> The total collected in all car taxes including the tax on fuel likely 
 >>>>> does tho. 
 >>> 
 >>>> ...by a factor of three at a minimum. 
 >>> 
 >>> Then with that logic, the taxes collected from smoking should be ring 
 >>> fenced for medical treatment of those smokers, and the same with 
 >>> alcohol? 
 > 
 >> No. The point isn't that motoring taxes shouldn't be spent elsewhere, it 
 >> is simply the amount that is taken, often from people who can least 
 >> afford it (running the oldest cars), when they have no real choice 
 >> (other than quitting work). 
 > 
 > So give us your view on how taxes should be collected which would be fair 
 > to all? 
  
 Simply not assuming that all motorists have money to spare andy more, 
 reducing the reliance of the state on such taxation and spreading it 
 more across the population as a whole. As I stated in the next paragraph. 
  
 >> Collecting maybe two thirds of that tax (so down to a 2x multiplier) 
 >> from motoring and the rest spread more generally across the population 
 >> instead of treating motorists as cash cows would be fairer. 
  
 SteveW 
  
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