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HAVE YOUR SAY

ARE BRITISH MOTORISTS BEING RIPPED OFF?

Do you think British drivers are being treated like a cash cow?

Wednesday April 29,2009

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ROAD TAX is exactly 100 years old today, but less of it than ever is being spent on Britain's crumbling roads.

On April 29 1909, the Government insisted ALL money raised from the new tax would be ploughed back into the UK road network. Not a penny of it was ever to go to the exchequer.

Today, the Government rakes in 21,000 times the £253,000 it raised in its first year - but less than a sixth of it is invested back into maintaining roads.

In 1909, road tax was set at two guineas or £2.10 per car. Now, it is a punitive system based on emissions and ranges from nothing for a Toyota IQ to a mammoth £400 for the biggest polluters.

Fuel duty was introduced in the same year at 3d or about 1p per gallon. Today it is £2.43 per gallon of unleaded. In its first year fuel duty raised £321,000 - 70,000 times the £22.5billion raised today.

Meanwhile modern motorists pay motoring taxes totalling about £45 billion but only about one-sixth gets spent on the roads.

So, as the Daily Express campaign to Get Britain Moving gathers pace, we want to know what YOU think.

Are you fed up with paying ludicrously high motoring taxes?

Do you feel, as a motorist, you get good value for money for all the road and petrol tax you pay?

Or is the Government treating drivers as a cash cow, stealthily taking tens of billions in motoring taxes and pouring them into hated pet projects like ID cards?

HAVE YOUR SAY...NOW

THIERY HENRY CHEAT

19.11.09, 7:00pm

I am surprised that nobody seems to recognise that this man who although recognised by most , including myself as a master of the art of football is none the less a serial cheat. I consider it a sad sign of the times that a naturally gifted man like Thiery Henry seems to think it is clever to collapse on the ground holding his face when the tackle has not involved his face This is clearly done in an attempt to get an opposition player sent off unfairly. This is something I observed on TV while he was a star player for Arsenal Once or twice maybe but three times MAKES HIM A LOSER

• Posted by: limoges1 • Report Comment

EXPLOITED MOTORISTS

18.11.09, 12:51pm

Has any reader been unlucky enough to have fallen foul of parking fines imposed at motorway service stations, because after two hours you are parking on private property, this has obviously been endorsed by the DVLA who give out your personal details to a private company so that an action can be taken against you. The overhead signs advise drivers to pull in if they are tired, for thier own safety and that of other road users, At three in the morning in a darkened carpark I never noticed any signage indicating these charges even though they say it is visible on the charge letter. This information should be displayed on motorway service signs and not on some little sign after the fact, between this and the average speed cameras being instaled, the nations arteries are becoming part of the many ways to milk the motorist.

• Posted by: Scotayr • Report Comment

SEE WHAT I MEAN ?

17.11.09, 4:44pm

Only been talking about it for two minutes... and already my IQ has dropped to just above the level of a rocking horse..

Thus:

"The post on here from some mush for brians and ex-human being who is so obviously been comatised by all the mushy brained claptrap !"

Er... my brian hurts

WTF !

Nurse.... Nurse

• Posted by: Harri_if_hipphopper_wants_a_date_just_ask • Report Comment

THANKS MARIGOLD..

17.11.09, 12:17pm

Thats one vote i have got then ?

That talentless little annoying scrote of a man Willie Walsh is it? will be the first i would take great delight in taking revenge on, for turning so many human beings into ' several varities of vegetables in many forms of a vegative state.. ie:

The post on here from some mush for brians and ex-human being who is so obviously been comatised by all the mushy brained claptrap !

As i have said before, why not just rename the other mush for brains so called entertainment to ' Strictly come Trancing '

Thats whats it's for

I like the latest one.. apparrently ' Bruce Forsyth is past his sell by date' ?

No shi* Sherlock !

Now replace him then with the half pig , one quarter fallen out of an ugly tree, and the other quarter hit every single branch and twig on the way down.. Jo Brand .. sorry Bland. now that would be Funny !

• Posted by: Harri_if_hipphopper_wants_a_date_just_ask • Report Comment

HARRI LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU DECIDE TO MAKE YOUR ENTRANCE ON XFACTOR

17.11.09, 10:29am

That would be one unmissable show !

• Posted by: marigold • Report Comment

MARIGOLD, 'LIFE IS AS EASY OR AS HARD AS ONE WANTS TO MAKE IT' /

16.11.09, 7:58pm

Me, i would just amble onto ' stage' punch ALL of them ( very, very hard ) on X factor, then stroll onto the next ' set' and do exactly the same to ALL those who ' star' in Strictly come Trancing'

And then, maybe, just maybe... we can all pit this dribble and mind mushing shi*, to bed once a for frigging all ?

I REALLY, am now putting my head into my hands, and weeping floods of tears ?

How, the hell in the love of all things holy, did it ever come to this ?

Now, there is ' dumbing down. and there is ' dumbing down'

Jedward, ? WHO !

Stroll onto stage, punch them all, very, very hard... and not even sing one single note in tune, you could even have three left feet.... you would instantly become a ' star'?

I rest my humble case !