The Budget

With the steam running out of the EV bandwagon, that may be a temporary problem.

They're already talking about that, supposedly to help with the boat people.

There is no tax for having / possessing a vehicle.

None at all.

The tax is for the right to use it on the roads: Road Tax.

Today, the orforrities call it Vehicle Tax.

Other than Council tax, is there a tax that does tax people who have no money to spend (counting income in excess of £12,500 pa as "money"!)?

At the end of each of the first two years, a 'no-test MOT' simply for your mileage to be recorded and submitted?

When the car is changing hands, again a 'no-test MOT' simply for your mileage to be recorded and submitted?

# It all makes (a little bit more) work for the working man to do.#

I fear that you believe the government (any colour) actually wants to stop it. If ID cards were to exist, they would simply be handed out to anyone arriving from across the Channel.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

Depends on what you mean by 'money to spend' BBC license fee is mandatory even if you only watch GB news... Car tax is mandatory even if you only do 1 mile a year. Any expenditure that is hard to get rid of - heating and electricity - will have tax on it that you cannot realistically avoid.

Income tax is on earnings, not on spendings. National insurance is mandatory if you are working

The labour lie is 'taking money from people who can afford it (because they are thrifty savers) and giving it to those who need it (to buy yet more Death Burgers and skunk) is actually fair. Or even true

Tax on capital assets is iniquitous. Tax on earnings discourages work.

Only tax on spending is fair as it targets people who have money to spend

That's why Labour wont use it to control consumption.

Maybe. I think they would have a hard time justifying that, though

And, of course, you have to add the tax for the mandatory insurance. I suppose you could drive without insurance (and car tax for that matter...), but it'll cost you a lot more than the tax if you get caught!

According to a report today, 27% of people over the age of 65 have assets, including their house, worth over £1m. We are not all poor, or likely to vote for the Conservatives either.

The classic 'asset rich, money poor' situation. We are sitting on assets well in advance of £1m but, although we're not broke by any means, we're not rolling in money.

The rise in population since I was a boy is about 20 million. Plenty enough to absorb almost *all* the housebuilding possible during the last 60 years. Small wonder that houses continue to be a safe asset, with their book value a very misleading indicator. A serious reduction in migration (legal/illegal) is required to reduce this trend, so that more resource can be put to fixing up the housing stock we have, or replacing the rubbish with better.

can't be enough

Which the Tories continued to target.