[Gllug] [OT] Times Article on ABD was Fighting a virus

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 09:33 +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
> > It's not penalising car travel. It is making car users pay the full
> > costs of their travel (instead of it being paid by everybody). This is
> > one element of why it is a progressive form of taxation. To repeat: the
> > wealthy have far greater access to car travel than the poor. But the
> > poor still pay taxes to subsidise the rich car users.
> 
> Sorry but I'm calling bullshit on that one. Where is your evidence to 
> support this claim?
> 
I've been away for a few days and so I don't know if this discussion is
still current. But, yes, I can supply academic references to back this
up - in fact the wealthiest 10% in the UK spend 30 times more on petrol
than the poorest 10% and similar figures, though obviously not so
extreme, apply to upper and lower quartiles.

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