Motor tax hike is enough to drive us all round the bend

THE motor tax hike announced so sneakily after the budget is a stealth tax pure and simple.

It is designed to shore up the public finances after their abuse by a Government intent on re-election even at the cost of total chaos in the overall economy.

Why should ordinary people pay for the stupidity and the egomania of our political masters? The explanation that the rise would be used solely to maintain the level of funding for the country’s non-national roads is obscene.