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Re: Bus vs Car Costs (Was: Re: City Traffic)

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From: mathew
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:55
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T.I.Morley@lut.ac.uk (TI Morley) writes:
> One way of evening things up is to try to decrease the fixed cost of
> having a car and increase the marginal cost. The most obvious way of
> doing this is to reduce or abolish road tax and increase the tax (duty?)
> on fuel to compensate. Can anyone think of anything else that can be
> done on these lines?

Yes.  Instruct the police not to prosecute car thieves.  The Tory
government's trying the more indirect approach of increasing poverty and
underfunding the Police force, but the end result is the same.


mathew
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Subject: Re: Bus vs Car Costs (Was: Re: City Traffic)
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