Re: Budget 'to hit gas guzzlers hard'

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:36:39 -0000, "Curious" <?> wrote:

<amacmil304@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Perhaps he should also raise the tax and remove subsidies from buses
and trains that run about almost empty a good part of the day.

Angus Macmillan

That's fine by me but how would that hit the non-labour voting middle/upper
classes?


I'm not sure that class has much to do with it.

When one looks at the motorways in rush hours it's generally workers
coming or going to work.

In Glasgow many years ago, people would only be recruited into the
police force if they lived within the city boundary. If a law was
made that, all other things being equal, job applicants were given
preference the closer they lived to their work-place, it might have an
effect on commuting.


Angus Macmillan
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