cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16064759
Sorry Darin, not a grass
On some things the UK is progressive, on other issues, like sustainable transport, they see it as antisocial behaviour.
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It doesn't require tax because it is not motorised, that is the cause of this issue
I'll bite. So cars use the road and because the road needs maintenance we pay a tax on the vehicle, registration, license etc bs. But a bike or just walking on the road would hardly do anything to the road. So taxation of the road use, where does it end? Let's say everyone gave up their cars and stopped paying taxes for the road, would that mean we all have to pay exactly what we used to pay for car worthy roads? Or maybe the roads get smaller for bicycle use? But how do you get big items around? Like a big rig bringing crates full of food to a store? Shouldn't taxes shift over to the food instead of the people traveling and minimally affecting the road? Surely, if the road degraded it would be because of truck traffic.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying the situation. It is very stupid. We should be encouraging these kinds of eco-friendly personal transport methods and they should absolutely have total priority over cars
I'll bite. So cars use the road and because the road needs maintenance we pay a tax on the vehicle, registration, license etc bs. But a bike or just walking on the road would hardly do anything to the road. So taxation of the road use, where does it end? Let's say everyone gave up their cars and stopped paying taxes for the road, would that mean we all have to pay exactly what we used to pay for car worthy roads? Or maybe the roads get smaller for bicycle use? But how do you get big items around? Like a big rig bringing crates full of food to a store? Shouldn't taxes shift over to the food instead of the people traveling and minimally affecting the road? Surely, if the road degraded it would be because of truck traffic.