Road-users should pay to fill the potholes

NONE of the motorists who deluged newspapers recently with letters about potholes caused by the extreme weather think road-users should pay for the repairs, assuming the money comes from some magic pot of gold, or that it will be diverted from other government expenditure such as healthcare or education or, absurdly, demand the costs are paid from the carbon tax.

But to impose a tax just to hand the money back makes the whole idea of the tax quite pointless – it is a means of raising revenue and combating global warming.

No one demands that tax on beer be spent on pubs.