Re: When are you too old to drive?

"Mike Marlow" <mmarlow@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > "Brian Nystrom" <brian.nystrom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> As a cyclist, this is aggravating as it's hard enough to get drivers

>> >> to
>> >> share the road without some moron like this guy encouraging them to
>> >> "knock us off".
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>> > When you pay, then you'll have a say.
>>
>> Already paid. A ****ing ****load of VAT and Tax, and VED on my car, and
>> FWIW, tax money isn't kept in seperate pots - they don't have a pot
full
> of
>> cash from car drivers to spend on fixing the roads any more than they 
>> have
> a
>> pot from smokers specifically for curing lung cancer - they just shove
it
>> all in one lump. Having bikes taxed a la Switzerland will not raise any
>> serious amounts of cash.
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> When you buy a second or a third or a fourth car, do you get to drive
them
> on the roads for free simply because you've already paid highway use
fees 
> on
> your first car?  No.  You pay for each vehicle you're going to drive. 
Let
> bicyclists pay registration fees to use the roads as well if they want
to 
> be
> so demanding of their privileges.

Privileges such as riding on roads that I have a legal right to? If horses

were more common, would you want them to have tax disks too? The fact is 
that VED is not a tax that gives you the right to use the road - it's not 
been called Road Fund Licence for a very long time now. It's just a tax on

ownings cars that are taken on the road, to ensure that everyone keeps
their 
cars registered and to raise a bit of cash.

I imagine the original Road Fund Licence came about due to the fact that 
cars and commercials do far more damage to the roads than cycles.