On Your Bike VI: The Undiscovered Penalty

Posted by Ben @ December 18th, 2009 7:46 am. Filed under: Can't someone else pay the tax?,Clearly You've Thought This Through,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Duplicate Petitions — Tags: Leigh Favell, Miss Jade Tipping —

Charge cyclists 10 pound a year road tax.

by Miss Jade Tipping

its a fair tax, 10 pound a year for cyclists to use public roads as any other form of transport requires tax, insurance, m.o.t, whereas cyclists dont need any of these to use our roads and with the governments new policy to keep the planet green they are forcing more and more people to use cycles for work etc, so there are more cyclists on the roads than ever before, i think most cyclists would not mind paying 10 pound a year to use public roads which would generate a very large annual income for the government to use where it is needed.

It’d be hypocritical of me to point out the people complaining about the 50p broadband tax and then turn around and say this idea here is ridiculous. That being said, cyclists account for a virtually negligible amount of wear and tear on city streets. £10 seems disproportionate to the amount of damage we’re doing, especially when you consider that one car alone pumps out twelvety-thousand billion billion yards of greenhouse gases a day. Possibly I am exaggerating.

And while I’m on the subject of the broadband tax…

Stop the broadband tax.

by Leigh Favell

Why should we have to pay another tax to improve broadband speeds when we already pay tax on broadband.

BT have said the money raised wouldn’t come near to their estimates of the cost to get broadband to all homes.

Well that’s just because BT like to grab money, which explains those Direct Debit fees you also like to complain about.

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