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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by gadders on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:00PM (#37039125)
In the UK at least, Road Tax has no relation at all to the cost of repairing roads and is just treated as (yet another) tax.

And as a general point, any tax that is intended to encourage a behaviour should be revenue-neutral i.e. if you raise taxes for large cars, lower than for small cars so that the total tax take to government is the same. Otherwise it just becomes one more way for the government to ratchet up the amount of money they take from their citizens.

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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by bitdivision on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:39PM (#37039829)
No, but it does take externalities into account, i.e. road tax is based on CO2 emissions.
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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by Lio on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:48AM (#37059444)
It’s also worth noting that in the UK it’s explicitly not called “road tax”.

It’s the snappily titled Vehicle Excise Duty, VED.

That was changed in 1937 to stop drivers assuming it gave them more right to use the road than anyone else.

The roads here were not built for cars, cars just use them.

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