On the way to work this morning, I saw a woman put her daughter into the back of her Chelsea Tractor and drive her no more than 80m to the bus stop at the end of the road. With people like this on the road, I'm all for taxing the petrol guzzling Sloans up to the eye balls.
But it's not just the gentry of Belgravia which are affected by the recent announcement to increase taxes on vehicles with higher emissions, self-employed tradesmen will catch the brunt of the indulgences of the wealthy trying to keep up with the Jones'.
And casting an eye down the money saving alternatives doesn't make for practical reading - a Prius is ideal for the school run but loaded with two palettes of tiles and a 3 piece bathroom suite, the fuzzy feeling of saving the world quickly subsides.
Surely we need to think about practicalities before we start sweeping the board with taxes. Otherwise we're in danger of robbing from the poor to compensate the whims of the rich. Not what I remember reading in the Labour manifesto...
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