new snooping powers on travel

[BDG]

If all road tax was spent on the roads, then we would not have this problems. We also need to go back to the old system of road tax where it was a flat fee per car rather than it being waved or cheaper for some cars and more expensive for others based on how much CO2 they emit / mile.

Someone may have say, A Range Rover and do 2000 miles a year and pay £400+ road tax compared to someone who has a car that is not liable or has low cost road tax and does 12K miles a year. Who produces more CO2?

Under what other system are we taxed on potential. Using the model of road tax, the government could come along to me and say

'You could earn £300K a year, we want £120K tax from you this year'.

Yeah, makes sense.