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Originally Posted by Kursk
Cyclists do pay to use the roads; roads are maintained through general taxation. In fact, there is no road tax paid by anyone as such, there is a tax on vehicle emissions and bicycles don't emit anything toxic (the riders might!) so cyclists contribute in the same way as motorists. How many times...
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You know the only person that calls it vehicle emissions tax is the chancellor a couple of times a year in the budget, the rest of the time the treasury call it car tax, the dvla call it car tax, the aa call it car tax as do most other organisations, that being the case it's not unfair for other vehicles to pay to use the facility of roads, as for insurance, do horsey types pay insurance? You are right about the road tax though, abolished in 1937, I doubt there's many that remember paying it and if there are I'd question whether they should still be on the road
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