Thread: free travel for all on the railways - the figures speak for themselves
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Old October 19th 10, 08:24 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,uk.local.london
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Default free travel for all on the railways - the figures speak for themselves
thedarkman wrote:

Aside from that, a lot of commuting is just plain unnecessary, imagine
what would happend if they shut down all the City banks.


Taxes paid by the UK financial services industry contribute over a
quarter of the UK's revenue from taxation - no other sector of the
economy contributes more.

Without that revenue, how are you going to fund your daft ideas?

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