Oh for fuck's sake

[andrewducker]

There's a BBC News story here saying that the government shouldn't put up petrol taxes...because theey'll hit the poor harder than the rich.

OF COURSE THEY WILL!!!!!

All taxes, except for ones that are (in some way) means-tested, hit the poor harder, because the poor have less money.

If the tax didn't affect people by making it harder to drive everywhere all the damn time, it would be a tad pointless, especially when this is something the government has said it's supposed to encourage.

Oh, the stupidity.

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that :-)

In my experience it is a dislike of a]public transport and b]carrying shopping which makes a car a "necessity" for many. Some people (due to circumstances/location/job) do in fact need one. Most of the time, it's just desirable to have one rather than necessary. Like most things.

But then, given the already high cost of cars themselves, tax, insurance premiums the risks of repair bills etc etc... what the heck is someone poor doing having a car anyway? Unless it's for a job, it's going to make you worse off, not better.

[dystopicreality.livejournal.com]

My arguement for taking the motorcycle to work is that the tax and insurance is dirty cheap, I don't contribute to congestion, emissions are negligable compared to other transportation and more importantly, the cost of taking public transport for just one day pretty much covers my petrol bill for the *entire week* :)