Re: Motor trade redundancy's

In article <3cVSk.65242$HK.20470@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Arfa Daily <arfa.daily@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <E_SSk.60748$mr4.36488@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Arfa Daily
<arfa.daily@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tax of any variety is always a contentious issue. We have got used
over the last 10 years to having this rotten government hit us with a
new tax either visibly, or by the back door, every few weeks to the
point where our pips are now squeaking louder than the shoes we can
no longer afford to replace.

I'd say you should speak for yourself.

Ignoring this present fiasco, many have found their standard of living
has improved greatly over the past 10 years.

Even if the road fund licence is a small percentage of the overall
running costs, it is still perceived by many to be significant, and
unfairly levied at a greater amount on larger cars.

Plenty will simply find fault with anything depending on their
political persuasion.

If I were buying new, it would certainly affect my decision about
engine size, no matter how irrational that may seem in analysis of
total costs, and especially given the uncertainties about how this
tax is likely to be applied in future, when they are even nearer to
bankrupting the country, and need to raise yet more money from those
that they perceive to have it to give to them. Now that they've
established this tax slide for engine sizes based on global warming
hysteria and eco bollox, there's no telling where they (or even the
next lot), may take it.

Do I take it by that you never buy a new vehicle?

Well, I say that you should speak for yourself as well, Dave.

I am. And for the many I know of. You were speaking like it applied to
everyone.

My standard of living most certainly hasn't gone up in the last ten
years, and I don't think that I know anyone who is self employed or in
business for themselves, who would say that theirs has either.

I'm self employed.

To contend that I am finding fault for the sake of it just because of
political persuasion, is ridiculous. I don't care which colour of
government introduced the sliding road tax crap, it is a knee jerk
reaction to the global warming hysteria and eco-bollox that we are
daily bombarded with now. As someone else commented, like much of the
legislative burden we have had dumped on our heads by this euro crazy
bunch of tossers, it was ill thought through, and has had a significant
effect on sales of larger engined cars, with all the attendant job
losses to the manufacturers, and peripheral suppliers, like my
neighbour who supplied a service to Range Rover, but now doesn't as the
requirement has gone down so far as to make it not worth them
out-sourcing this service.

Differential rate based on approximate engine size 'road tax' isn't new.
It was actually imposed in 1909 by a Liberal government.

But to suggest the current version is solely responsible for the decline
in large engined vehicle sales etc is nonsense.

As to whether I ever buy a new vehicle, the answer to that is no. Even
if I could justify the depreciation over the first couple of years, I
still couldn't afford to buy new.

Which really just proves my point.

I have only one self employed friend who regularly buys new. He is a
carpet fitter who seems for some reason, to have more money than he
knows what to do with. Everyone else that I know who work for
themselves, are struggling to keep their heads above water, and are
driving around in cars at least five years old as a result.

I'm surprised that the majority of your circle of friends are all doing
worse now than 10 years ago. This is the reverse of my experience. They
might well be having to work harder - but are actually more prosperous.
Perhaps it's a regional thing.

If you are doing well in your business, then good luck to you, but I
don't think that because you are, you should assume that everyone else
is. If you looked into it a bit more, you might find that you, like my
carpet fitter mate, belong in the exception category, rather than the
norm ...

On the face of it I'm not really surprised your repair business isn't
doing as well as once - given the fall in purchase price in real terms of
many consumer goods paying to have them repaired may not make sense.

--
*Black holes are where God divided by zero *

Dave Plowman dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx London SW
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