Re:Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street?
by bbarn on Thursday May 05, 2016 @06:38PM
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As a cyclist, I get a lot of reasons I shouldn't be on the road thrown at me from people with uneducated opinions, but this one - this misconception right here that driving pays for roads, is the only one that makes my blood boil. I think if more people understood what actually pays for the roads it would cut down on the sense of entitled driving so many seem to have in general.
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Re:Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street?
by kspaans on Thursday May 05, 2016 @06:52PM
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The UK has a campaign dedicated to this: http://ipayroadtax.com/
Admittedly it's more due to the UK's peculiar form of taxation (in a netshell: occupiers of houses pay "council tax" rather than owners paying "property tax"). But the website is a little dated, I hear they re-instated a ring-fenced sales tax on cars that will go towards road development.