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

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Well it would be interesting to see if said survey took into account the increase in mortgage rates and lessening of disposable income when making that conclusion, especially for those that have to travel significant distances to work and back each day.

7 years ago I had to travel 20 miles to and from work. 200 miles a week meant £1000 in fuel costs a year. Given fuel prices have doubled since then, and people have to travel greater distances, I would suggest that this token survey is probably not taking into account the concept of people living beyond their means, getting into huge debt or bankrupcy.