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Originally Posted by Neil
You really are talking rubbish with all your stealth tax comments
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Originally Posted by Less
I do my shopping commando style.
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Originally Posted by Studio25
It isn't a stealth tax, it's a punishment for breaking the rules. What are the alternatives?
- Ignore it - then what's the point of having parking regulations?
- "Please don't do that again" - yeah, like that's going to work
- Point(s) on the licence - overstay your welcome in a timed parking bay 12 times and you lose the right to drive. I like the idea, but it's easy enough for drunks, speeders and football players to stay behind the wheel, so I can't see it being effective for serial offenders.
- Crushed car - A bit extreme
- Public flogging - actually...
- Prison - OK now you're just being ridiculous.
A fixed penalty is an effective punishment for a relatively minor offence. Nobody likes to pay money for nothing in return, and won't see the few minutes of extra parking they got that nobody else gets as the benefit of the £30 or whatever they have to pay. |
Try and get PC plod to do anything about a parking issue and my guess is they really wouldn't want to know unless it's dangerous parking (I may be wrong).
Some may argue that parking fines are no bad thing and that it’s better to charge a minority who have broken a "rule" than raise the level of say council tax for everyone (god forbid they do what struggling businesses have done for years and make cuts
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I just think motorists pay more than enough already to councils/gov ......
.....maybe (I'm right) it's just a "stealth tax" on those silly enough to park illegally? I've been driving for years and never had any of this "stealth tax" applied to me