New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with whom I occasionally find myself agreeing - on guns for example, has used the occasion of Earth Day to announce a number of "green" measures including, in emulation of London, the imposition of a congestion charge for motor vehicles in lower Manhattan.
In emulation of the American embassy in London I can only hope that the British consulate in New York is preparing plans to identify this pernicious charge as what it truly is, a tax, and therefore refuse to pay it. Hopefully some of the money that is saved in this way will be passed on to London as recompense for amounts that the Yanks refuse to pay and therefore go to lower my council tax!
Time will tell how the Americans, who assume a God given right to drive anywhere they wish, will take to this.
In emulation of the American embassy in London I can only hope that the British consulate in New York is preparing plans to identify this pernicious charge as what it truly is, a tax, and therefore refuse to pay it. Hopefully some of the money that is saved in this way will be passed on to London as recompense for amounts that the Yanks refuse to pay and therefore go to lower my council tax!
Time will tell how the Americans, who assume a God given right to drive anywhere they wish, will take to this.
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