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turbo10
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MaFt
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| Quote: | | 'Ministers need to tell us what they are doing with this £100million a year taken from motorists. |
to be honest, i don't care. so long as someone else pays the extra tax for me ;)
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M8TJT
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Location: Bexhill, South Sussex, UK
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | to be honest, i don't care. so long as someone else pays the extra tax for me ;)
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Nice thought MaFt, unfortunately, the current government either waste it or give, it away the same as they do with a lot of the other tax that they raise off those of us who are foolish enough to actually work for a crust  .
I'm now surprised that now there is no cash in it for local government, they have not followed Swindon and said that cams are an unfair tax raising 'scam' and more havn't said 'shove 'em as they are costing council tax payers too much. |
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Darren
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| M8TJT wrote: | | I'm now surprised that now there is no cash in it for local government, they have not followed Swindon and said that cams are an unfair tax raising 'scam' and more havn't said 'shove 'em as they are costing council tax payers too much. |
Ah but there is a difference between not profiting from them and costing them money to run. They are self funding and the SCP's don't cost tax payers a penny directly.
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Skippy
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Location: Escaped to the Antipodies! 36.83°S 174.75°E
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| Department for Transport wrote: | | Independent research shows there are 1,745 fewer deaths and serious injuries at camera sites each year. |
Wow, so from over 4,000 fixed camera sites they are saving just 1,745 people from being killed or seriously injured every year? So that means the average "pay back time" for a camera to save just one person from being seriously injured or killed is about 2.5 years. What a waste of time. 
And even if you believe this statistic (which I don't) how come the number of people killed on the roads has remained pretty much static? Are these 1,745 people finding other places to go and kill or seriously injure themselves then?
They did make a lot of money though and at the end of the day, money talks.
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DennisN
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Headline says it's quadrupled.
So move to North Yorkshire, Dyfed Powys, or Gwent, where the camera income has gone down.
DO NOT move to my area, Avon and Somerset where the income has more than TENrupled - even more than Mr Brunstrom!
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