Hi, I do find these sort of discussions go round and round. We all live in a capitalist society and enjoy the benefits of the same and while some of the suggestions that people make have a very good and strong ethical base they really do not fit in with the capitalist society that we live, nearly everything we do/use/eat etc has a link and if you try to remove one of these links you better have a very good substitute not some utopian ideal, as if you did increase petrol to 1000 and paid 200 for each bus trip, you may find that you could remove half of the buses because you will have put half of the working population out of work as there will be no need for car manufacture, repair, tyres etc etc.
This should make an interesting discussion ----- Original Message ----- From: Nick Atty To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Proposed new car tax (OT) On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:41:12 -0000, Niall wrote: >From: "Nick Atty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> Even if they mean it - really really mean it - there's nothing to stop >> them putting the fuel tax up again in the future. >> > >What's the objective? >Get people out of cars. >Will revenue neutral achieve this? >No. > >Does this government lie? >Were there WMD in Iraq? I'm obviously dumb at the moment, but I can't work out if you are vigorously supporting me or violently disagreeing with me. It's quite clear that you could have a revenue neutral way to get people out of cars. Just tax fuel at £1000 a gallon and pay them £200 a trip to use the bus. Adjust numbers to make it balance. And if the Government always lie then how do we know that the objective *is* to get people out of cars. -- On-line canal route planner: http://www.canalplan.org.uk (Waterways World site of the month, April 2001) My Reply-To address *is* valid, though likely to die soon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.35/680 - Release Date: 2/10/2007 9:15 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
