T_Bone wrote:
Oh brother.
It's a game folks. They're pitting you people against each other so you won't notice them taking your money.
First they'll tax SUV owners more because "SUV's Are eViL"
(non SUV users cheer and feel they are "winning")
Then they'll tax small car owners more because they recieve more damage in an accident.
(SUV users cheer and feel they are "winning")
End result? Someone has just robbed all of you, yet you all feel you're "getting even" with others. :roll:
Classic class warfare being used as camo for robbing the public blind.
There's some truth in what you're saying. But I don't think it's really a class issue. Many people in this area are in similar lines of work and of the same class, some drive powerful expensive to run SUV's, others drive cheaper to fuel cars. Every car owner in this country is already being taxed for fuel, use of the road, has massive insurance costs, etc... No-one has any doubt that they are being robbed. And it is going to get worse.
My advice, if you can get away with it, don't own a car! I manage just fine without one but wonder if that would be the case if I had a family or worked further a field, or had a job that required some travel. Probably not.
What I'd like to see is the government putting all this money they are "robbing" into the public transport system, which is presently falling down and going rotten.
-zudo
