Comments on: Ming meets leading Lib Dem bloggers http://www.mingcampbell.org.uk/2007/09/16/ming-meets-leading-lib-dem-bloggers/ Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:32:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adrian Nash http://www.mingcampbell.org.uk/2007/09/16/ming-meets-leading-lib-dem-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-14344 Adrian Nash Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:31:46 +0000 http://www.mingcampbell.org.uk/2007/09/16/ming-meets-leading-lib-dem-bloggers/#comment-14344 Interesting about VED but why not scrap VED? Just bung a couple of pence on fuel duty and cut the expense of collecting and enforcing VED. If a person owns a twenty litre gas guzzling monster car but only does two hundred miles a year in it, why should he be penalised? A youth with a heavy right foot in a hot hatch can do tens of thousands of miles a year and pay less VED for more pollution, this hardly seems fair does it? VED is just a jealousy tax these days, bearing little relationship to "green" behaviour. The fuel causes the polution, so it is glaringly obvious that that is where the tax should be placed and all the other rubbish swept away in the name of state economy! It's hardly "rocket science" is it? Adrian Nash Interesting about VED but why not scrap VED? Just bung a couple of pence on fuel duty and cut the expense of collecting and enforcing VED. If a person owns a twenty litre gas guzzling monster car but only does two hundred miles a year in it, why should he be penalised? A youth with a heavy right foot in a hot hatch can do tens of thousands of miles a year and pay less VED for more pollution, this hardly seems fair does it? VED is just a jealousy tax these days, bearing little relationship to “green” behaviour. The fuel causes the polution, so it is glaringly obvious that that is where the tax should be placed and all the other rubbish swept away in the name of state economy! It’s hardly “rocket science” is it?

Adrian Nash

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