Electric car owners should pay road tax

IT appears that many people don’t understand that the only way governments, whether local or national and of any political persuasion, can raise money is by taxation. If more financial support is required, for anything from the NHS to street lights, then that money has to be raised by taxation.

Electric vehicles use the roads, why shouldn’t the owners help pay for their maintenance through road tax? If your kids go to school, help pay for their education. More police on the streets, pay more tax. The list of things supported by local and central government funding is staggering and it all has to be paid for by some form of taxation.

The whole financial situation has been made far worse because of Covid, the war in Ukraine and the loss of the cheap labour pool brought about by Brexit, which resulted in higher wages having to be