"loopy livernose" wrote
No no no. "Fairly"?? You're missing the point. Within 20 years we'll all be in electric cars anyway, yet the govt relies on motorists to prop up its finances. So the search is for a way to carry on collecting all that lovely hydrocarbon tax, plus the VAT on it that's a tax on a tax, when we're not buying petrol any more.
Solution: charge for the use of roads instead within 10 years, and sweeten it by reducing the tax on something we soon won't be buying anyway. It's a bit like increasing the tax on cigarettes, but arguing that on balance it's "fair" because you're *reducing* the tax on snuff.