It's reported today that the coalition government is to produce a new 'policy agenda' which will include proposals for funding new road building schemes through the imposition of tolls on motorists.
I doubt that I am the only motorist who will find this approach unacceptable. Motorists already pay a vast amount in assorted taxes for the privilege of using existing roads and are generally 'hammered' at every opportunity. Car tax, the road fund licence, petrol duty, VAT, insurance premium tax are only part of the story; tolls on some roads and bridges, parking charges and vindictive and disproportionate fines and other penalties for a range of supposed traffic offences etc., etc., and now they want to charge us yet again to use roads for which we've already paid several times over.
I have no objection to the imposition of tolls *IF* it is as a replacement for existing charges and taxes, not as an addition. As currently stated, the proposed charges would be just another tax on top of the huge amounts that we already pay; the motorist is simply being used as a 'milch cow' for the government.
NO, NO, NO !
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