As I understand it, police authorities are only allowed to spend this money on more speed cameras.
That (if true) is not an inherent property of them. If the Mr Toad Society were truly concerned about road safety, they'd campaign to keep the cameras and spend the money on traffic policemen.
Also if cameras make money and that money can only be spent on more cameras, that produces an unlimited number of cameras. Again, something Mr Toad is telling us isn't true.
The remainder, as I understand it, is supposed to go to central government funds (hence the 'stealth tax' misnomer).
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Fairy nuff. Speed cameras aren't "bad because they don't catch... [non-speeding illegal motorists]" but rather their existence has encouraged some police authorities to give up on catching such motorists.
That's the fault of the people making the decision; it's nothing to do with devices that (supposedly) make more money available to catch such motorists.
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:39:16 GMT someone who may be [email hidden] (Ekul Namsob) wrote this:-
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Also if cameras make money and that money can only be spent on more cameras, that produces an unlimited number of cameras. Again, something Mr Toad is telling us isn't true.
The remainder, as I understand it, is supposed to go to central government funds (hence the 'stealth tax' misnomer).
The voluntary tax paid by criminals can be used for other road safety schemes. This has been the case for, I would guess, at least five years.
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:39:16 GMT someone who may be [email hidden] (Ekul Namsob) wrote this:-
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Also if cameras make money and that money can only be spent on more cameras, that produces an unlimited number of cameras. Again, something Mr Toad is telling us isn't true.
The remainder, as I understand it, is supposed to go to central government funds (hence the 'stealth tax' misnomer).
The voluntary tax paid by criminals can be used for other road safety schemes. This has been the case for, I would guess, at least five years.
Ta. The thing I've often wondered about some of these stealth taxes is why the government makes them so easy to avoid by, for example, painting the charging devices bright yellow. [1]
Cheers, Luke
[1] It didn't stop me getting caught. But then a lorry was obscuring both my view of the camera and of the speed limit sign.
