Tax It

Gods I sound like some daily mail reading lunatic sometimes but this government's current attatude to make us all bette rpeople is always Tax it.

We selfishly drive cars rather than use public transport, for the good of the planet people must be taxed off the road.
We binge drink causing many health problems, to prevent this Alcohol must be more expensive.

Why do I disagree with these measures (And others like them) first is the basic concept. Make somethings oe xpensive that the majority of people can't afford to do it. In cars this means that peopel who live miles away from public transport (Rural areas, farmers etc) can't afford to run vehicles and are effectively stranded (Although considering how london-centric government acts its amazing they know what a rural area is). It also has the look of money grubbing. But most of all is that this is a very unfair conciet. When you say tax people out of their cars and make binge drinking unaffordable, what you really say is that driving in your own car or getting roundly drunk are privelages of the rich, and not for the likes of you proles.

Notably the government tent to shy away from measures that may either cost money or more specifically not earn. For example rather than tax people off teh orad greater investment in public transport (Accross the board, longer trains, bigger park and ride facilities, more services and lower fares) might persuade poeple out of their cars in a way that is both more effective and more popular than an expensive satellite based vehicle tracking system. That in itself is a stupid idea since if we have to be taxed for using our cars we already have a very good system in place. It taxes people based on vehicle usage and fuel efficiancy, yes, we tax petrol.

Alcohol is a bit different, what the government fail to realise is that increasing the price of alcohol will just lead to increases in crime, smuggling, and people drinking substitutes such as hoem made moonshine or worse, meths. What needs to be done here is some airy fairey, liberal proto-psychological hogwash. In short we need to find out why the only joy in someone's life is to drink their bodyweight in smirnoff ice on a saturday night. Perhaps we could look at the things that worry your average 18-50 year old, such as the lack of a pension since the funds were raided by, oh look, the treasury. Look at increasing insecurity of work, unaffordable housing, a promoted lifestyle that requires excessive working to fund even a basic existance, and lack of faith in a governemnt that is beset with lies, petty corruption and is grabbing at ever more of our civil liberties. Gods thinking about it makes me want to drink.