Allegedly a quote by Tim Yeo.
"that's why the government should be even bolder - really penal rates for high-emission
cars"
Source
tinyurl.com/6329as
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Some quotes from the BBC website:
"They need the biggest possible incentive, that's why the government should be even bolder - really penal rates for high-emission cars and really attractive 'carrots' so that tax is almost nothing on the greenest models."
However, he said that because three out of every four cars bought were second-hand, the tax should apply to old as well as new cars. "
"...and agreed it was not a retrospective tax"
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7539625.stm
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"............. - really penal rates for high-emission cars"
Most people who can afford to buy brand new high-emission cars can also afford to pay "penal" rates, so what effect will it have?
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I wish these Ivory Tower idiots would come back down to reality:
Increasing tax on all high-emissions cars post-2001 has two results:
Low emission cars become more expensive second hand and harder to find, high emission cars become very cheap but expensive to tax. The majority of people end up worse off regardless of what they own.
In which case, everybody suffers except those lucky enough to already own a low-emission car and the few who buy brand new cars and can make do with very small cars. Even they now face lengthy waiting lists as manufacturers struggle to keep up with demand.
I really think that Tim Yeo needs to look up the dictionary definition of retrospective:
"Latin retro, backwards + spectare, to look
retrospective
1. of, relating to, or contemplating the past
2. looking backwards
3. affecting or influencing past things; retroactive"
Clearly a re-banding of cars going back to 2001 fulfils criteria 3 of the definition...
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Good old Tim. What a lovely feller.
If you have a look on the "They Work for You" site about MP's you'll find that in the session 2006/7 he was joint first in claiming £22,110 in additional cost allowances and also claimed £5,226 in car allowances. So he should be alright for an increase in VED, then.
He has an interest in a company called Eco City Vehicles plc. Golly!
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If you think Labour impose high green taxes then just wait till the Tories get in! A great excuse to price the working classes off the road and leave less traffic for the wealthy. Not that I can do anything about it, I don't have a vote (I'm what you guys call a Yank).
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This is the guy that repeatedly contradicts Cameron, and highlights the Tories as yet another misdirected, contradictory, self interested bunch of fools . They believe in nothing more getting into power.
This depresses me far more than the state of the current government. The knowledge that the only viable alternative really isn't. At all.
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I would feel slightly happier about the 'Green' taxes if we could have some clarity on what they are being spent on. Do I see more trains, or existing trains with more coaches? Do I see forests being planted? Probably not! It is being wasted on things like mortgage subsidies on second homes for MPs who live within 10 miles of Westminster, vast and then cancelled Government computer projects and so on ad infinitum. I got the impression from Tim Yeo that there was a proposal that car tax changes would be neutral in that higher charges on large cars would be returned as reductions for small cars! Hmmm! Just off to Pig Airport to check in for my flight!
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Exactly, AS. Even environmentalists agree that increasing the costs of doing some activity, without meaningful investment in alternatives, simply makes people resentful towards both the policy and its objectives.
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Very true. Some of the strongest criticism of the proposed VED changes actually came from environmental pressure groups who not only acknowledged that the changes would do nothing to curb emissions, but also said that they dragged the whole "green tax" idea into disrepute.
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DP - exactly. There is no point in these people prating at length about how lovely they are, vote for Dave etc, when one rung down the ladder you have weapons-grade chumps like Yeo making damn-fool remarks like that.
But until MPs have to finance their cars out of taxed income or suffer a BIK charge for having one laid on, this sort of blether is likely to continue.
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Right; so that's "Conservative" added to my electoral blacklist.
Anyone know what the BNP's view on car tax is?
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Good old Tim. What a lovely feller.
He has an interest in a company called Eco City Vehicles plc. Golly!
Tim Yeo doesn't just 'have an interest'........he's the bloomin' chairman!!
Where is our illustrious press in reporting this scandal.
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The higher the cost of running a car, the more I will use it to get the most out of my motoring freedom. Hardly an incentive to leave the car at home is it, but then it's not really a green tax, just a cash cow for Labour Government Ltd.
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