Norman Wells wrote:
>
> "Nick" wrote in message
> news:63pq9vF27s9pjU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Mark Hewitt wrote:
>>> "need help" wrote in message
>>> news:022ce4a2$0$24192$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>>>> According to tonights Evening standard, TFL will propose extending
>>>> the Congestion Charge to the M25, it is not clear it means within or
>>>> on the M25, do the TFL have any leway with the M25 ?
>>>
>>> It's not like you have much choice in using the M25 if you want to go
>>> from the majority of the UK to Kent or the channel ports.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What has choice got to do with it. If I want to eat I have to buy
>> food, you pay vat on food.
>>
>> Road charging to manage congestion seems like a sensible thing to do.
>> I would object to the overall tax burden being raised but I would not
>> object to congestion charging being used as a tax raising technique.
>
> But congestion is self-regulating. If people don't like it, they're
> perfectly at liberty not to participate in it and thus contribute to it.
> Making people pay merely means that you get a better class of congestion
> as those who can't afford it are forced off the roads, which is hardly
> egalitarian.
>
>
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