Well that's OK then. You don't pay road tax!
Cyclists should be banned off certain roads
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Well that's OK then. You don't pay road tax!
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I find that concept perfectly easy to understand.
Q: Why tax motorists?
A: Because it makes more money for the exchequer.
Q: Why not tax cyclists as well? That would make even more money.
A: ?
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Because the amout of tax coming in would be insignificant compared to the amount of political capital the opposition parties would gain with hysterical yells of "Party X put tax on Childrens Tricycles!!"
People still go on about "Not voting Conservative cos of Thatcher." and she stopped being PM 24 years ago..
*Discaimer - I follow politics just enough so that I can understand most of Have I Got News For You on TV. Political opitions stated in my posts should not be treated as the wisdom of an expert.
So just like all my other posts on any given subject, then.*
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I pay taxes, like you!
How come you feel entitled to a rebate, yet you reckon I'm not entitled?
You get me wrong, SS. I don't want a rebate. I just don't want to have to pay road tax!
OK. Let me help you.
"A: Because I'm a cyclist and I don't see why I should pay road tax. Let the poor bloody motorists pay. Also, I don't want to have to carry identification plates, so that when I run red lights and cause accidents I can quickly cycle away and no-one will know who I am."
Actually, although you continue to make a big thing about road tax, that is not my main concern. What I would really like to see is compulsory identification plates/licence plates for cyclists for obvious reasons. Arrogant cyclists always cry the poor tale, yet are often the cause of accidents on the roads.
Can you give me any plausible reason why cyclists should not carry identification plates other than the fact that you'd have to pay for them?
We already (almost) do - our faces.
Most of us, anyway.
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I don't think I wrote those words, did I?
Can I assume, then, that this is a way of avoiding providing an answer to my question?
Just in case you have forgotten, my question was:
Can you give me any plausible reason why cyclists should not carry identification plates other than the fact that you'd have to pay for them?
(He won't. He can't!)
Oh, all right then. Yes, I'd like a rebate of my road tax, please. Can you arrange it for me?
Of course I can't, for the same reason you can't provide any reasons why people should not have to carry identification, that phone calls should not be recorded, that private courts should not be allowed, on and on etc.
Some things infringe on personal freedoms, but those are completely subjective and unquantifiable (how many angels on a head of a pin / freedom is simply a social mental construct, you can't "measure" it).
Hypocrite much?
But as a pedestrian , albeit an occasional one , you're still using a road. Pavements don't appear out of nowhere , they still have to be built , maintained , cleaned , lit etc and there is a call on here for ALL road users to pay a tax so you really shouldn't be asking for a rebate now should you?
Ah, now I see.
Cyclists can not possibly be made to carry identification plates because that would mean pedestrians would also have to carry identification plates.
Yes, that makes sense. Thank you.
......Uh?
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