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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: Bus vs Car Costs (Was: Re: City Traffic)
- Message-ID: <930126.155504.7c5.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 15:55:04 GMT
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- T.I.Morley@lut.ac.uk (TI Morley) writes:
- > One way of evening things up is to try to decrease the fixed cost of
- > having a car and increase the marginal cost. The most obvious way of
- > doing this is to reduce or abolish road tax and increase the tax (duty?)
- > on fuel to compensate. Can anyone think of anything else that can be
- > done on these lines?
-
- Yes. Instruct the police not to prosecute car thieves. The Tory
- government's trying the more indirect approach of increasing poverty and
- underfunding the Police force, but the end result is the same.
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- mathew
- [ "Sounds good to me..." ]
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