[Gllug] [OT] Fighting a virus

[John Hearns]

Jason Johns wrote:
> 
> Road pricing (afaik) is not really to reduce motorised transport's 
> impact on the environment. It is designed to ensure that the people who 
> pay for the upkeep and extension of the road network are the people wot 
> use it. Seems sensible but..

Road tax?
Seventy years ago the 1936 Finance Act scrapped Road Tax. The then 
Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill said that continuing it 
might lead car users to think they had moral ownership of the roads.

Bloody dangerous to cyclists to even try to reintroduce it.

To repeat - no tax in the UK is hypothecated to maintain roads,
and has not been for well over 70 years (when it didn't pay that much 
anyway).
For people who bleat on about road tax, just ask if you want alcohol 
duty to go towards renovating pubs.
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