seeing the other's view
NM wrote:
Brimstone wrote:
NM wrote:
Brimstone wrote:
You've been shown, you're already getting it. Unlike other
industries, road haulage is so cossetted it doesn't even have to
apply for subsidy, it gets it without having to ask.
So in fact there is no evidence, merely your groundless opinion that
trucks don't pay their way.
Taxation on lorries in particular and road vehicles in general has
been significantly reduced in recent years. That's subsidy by any
measure.
Or an indication that they were set too high, a sizeable proportion of
the UK fleet flagged out and Gorgon relented in the face of
unpresented opposition. That's the reality, subsidy is not even part
of the equation, the increases were just a stealth tax too far and
HMG didn't want another fuel tax type blocade.
As usual, the government bottled out and caved in to the road lobby.
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