Soleron said:
SamuelRSmith said:
Well, I'll leave the first paragraph, for now, as I haven't really put much thought into the idea.
The issue I have with the second paragraph is that the market price seldom reflects the actual costs. Petrol prices without fuel duty, for example, doesn't reflect pollution, noise costs, congestion, blah, blah, blah - I also believe that fuel duty doesn't reflect this particularly well, either, and so I propose another system where both fuel and road taxes are scrapped in favour of a more complex version of the congestion zone.
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Yes. I 100% agree there, not as a tax issue but as an environmental one. The money gained should be ring-fenced to mitgate the harm though. I'd quite like to see things charged according to whether the activity is sustainable.
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I wrote an essay on it, a while ago: https://docs.google.com/View?id=dgbq53jw_26fb7rm7fz
Disregard my solution, though, it's fucking awful. A system using number plate recognition technology would be far more elegant/easy to implement (as they currently do in London)
