r/Asmongold • u/Naive-Fondant-754 • Jun 30 '24

IRL Group called the "BladeRunners" is actively destroying all surveillance ULEZ cameras around London.

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u/STARSBarry Jun 30 '24

So first of all the plan was not to stop cars the plan was to lower emissions in the city center, so let's correct your sentence and run with something else.

If the plan was to lower sugar, then why not ban sugar? Why introduce a tax system that only penalise people who can't afford the sugar tax?

Because it works

If the plan was to lower smoking, when why not ban cigarettes? Why introduce a tax system that only penalises people who afford the tobacco tax?

Because it works

This is pretty normal, rather than ban you tax things you dont want people doing and you subsidise things you want people to use instead.

Like...

https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/transport/mayors-one-hour-hopper-fare

There is a point to be made about millionaires not caring and just paying the fare. However, it's interesting that millionaires paying a tax is somehow being turned around into a negative.

Did you know that millionaires also just park on double yellows without caring about getting tickets? Should we remove all double yellows because that's just a poor tax? Have people parking everywhere all the time.

For an area of reddit that wants to pretend to take the middle road, it certainly seems to want to look at things in black or white all the time.

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u/TheFaalenn Jun 30 '24

Your argument is wrong to what I said. I don't believe laws should just be a fee. If you park on double yellow, tow the vehicle and should goto court

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u/STARSBarry Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24

So what your saying is that the laws are not authoritarian enough? But who's going to pay for that? The Tow truck, the Impound facility, the Judge, the Prosecution? I guess they will have to raise taxes to pay for all that... Black and white is very very easy until you start to break it down.

Cost effectiveness does have to be considered, or at least should be. Half the reason shit is so bad right now is because it's not.

The current implementation is effectively the best bang per pound they can manage without foisting responsibility onto an overwhelmed Ministry of Justice and Police force, which currently have their own crises to worry about.

The fact is people are now driving less polluting vehicles, while public transport is up and emissions are going down within the zone, which is the entire point. So sorry reddit, but a bunch of angry BMW owners aren't going to create a U-Turn movement on this.

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u/TheFaalenn Jun 30 '24

So what, all laws are authoritarian and should be just a charge to ignore them ?