Picture 80 brand new Jumbo Jets with your van signage on them, or think of 200,000 Aston Martin’s DB9’s, alternatively consider the 1.1 billion people across the world that live on less than $1 (50p) a day and that if you had £24billion you could feed that many people (over 400 times the population of the UK) for 2 months!
The Treasury collects £32 billion annually and £8 billion goes to the roads most of which is spent on repairs and maintenance, the remainding money of course doesn’t get wasted, however subsidising a failing (and occasionally dangerous) rail network might not be the best route for investment.
So when you’re next on a delivery and sitting in a traffic jam think of how your transport tax is being spent…..
Posted on January 13th, 2008 by Kate
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