Clive Coleman wrote:
In message , Tony Raven
writes

So hands off our tarmac thank you.

How can it be your tarmac when you contribute nothing towards it? Don't
bother with the rubbish about fuel taxes being general taxation, without
them there's a lot of stuff you wouldn't now have, including tarmac roads.

Since tarmac roads existed long before cars, and cyclists were
instrumental in their widespread installation that is demonstrably
incorrect.

In addition local roads are funded by the local authorities to which we
all pay council tax. Central government only pays for trunk roads and
motorways, most of which cyclists use rarely. So whatever Gordon does
with the VED you pay to him, it doesn't pay for most of the tarmac roads
I cycle on.

Tony

In message , Tony Raven
writes
In addition local roads are funded by the local authorities to which we
all pay council tax. Central government only pays for trunk roads and
motorways, most of which cyclists use rarely. So whatever Gordon does
with the VED you pay to him, it doesn't pay for most of the tarmac
roads I cycle on.
If you really paid all your council tax it would be four or five times
what it is now because the government subsidy would be withdrawn, so you
are just plain wrong.
--
Clive.

Clive Coleman wrote:

If you really paid all your council tax it would be four or five times
what it is now because the government subsidy would be withdrawn, so you
are just plain wrong.

Three times actually where I live but then transport is only 5% of
council budgets and that includes more than roads. But of course it all
starts with your fallacy that VED and fuel duty is hypothecated by
Government to road building which it isn't

Tony