"Private sector employees and businesses pay taxes that keep the rest of the country moving. Yet they share the roads with public sector motorist, pensioners and school run trips, causing billions of pounds in delayed commuting to work for PS workers.
Non PS car drivers only draw from the taxes paid by PS workers, and then pay it back in to the system. They do not contribute to the wealth of the country.
Private sector workers should be given priority to get to over public sector workers, pensioners and school run trips. They should also be exempt from speeding fines, clamping, parking and other traffic offences. Traffic lanes should be coloured red for PS workers and normal tarmac for the rest. Any driver found in the private lane who is not a registered PS worker should be banned from driving for a year and forced to pay large fines.
2 plus lane schemes should be used to support private sector commuters and not school run families."
This, surely, has to be a joke or satire? He surely is aware that, for example, all road-users pay taxes on their road use, and indeed that everyone pays tax on any income and VAT on things they buy and so on and so forth? Surely?
Really, I'm just flagging this for your attention, be it horror-struck or humorous depending on how real you think the petition is (I'm oscillating, myself, between thinking no one could be this daft and fearing that actually they could ...)
2 comments:
I've now wasted an hour reading numerous blogs you have written in the last two months. You undoubtedly were raised here in England, and are undoubtedly young, based on the factors that you believe that just because you are "entitled to an opinion" that your opinion is valuable. It is most often, in most cases I read, not. Just asking questions, or expressing skepticism, is a curious exercise in self-psychotherapy but it is not by itself of value to others. Please spend more time evaluating each issue on the basis of what it may mean to society, not you. That you put words behind your opinions does not garner respect for you... nor does it enhance anything except your own listings. Please think twice. In Frank Herbert's Dune an important principle was to "speak only the deepest truth you can sense". Please. Thanks. Anonymous only because I like most others have litle time and now I won't waste further time reading your rantings. But good luck anyway. Cheers, a real person
Well, if it's a joke, so was the letter to the local paper today with the exact same logic (public sector workers are paid from taxation, so any tax on their money isn't actually new money for the government, so they shouldn't be allowed to use public services).
That said, this week's letters page was generally strange. The best was from someone saying "How dare they raise the police force component of Council Tax by 35% - the police round here are rubbish!"
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