RE: right to drive cars

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Thu Feb 13 2003 - 14:22:30 MST

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    ABlainey wrote:

    > I came up with an idea a while back when working a fair distance from
    > home. the reason I was having to travel so far every day was
    > that I couldn't find a similar job locally. The funny thing was
    > that I knew someone that I used to work with, who was doing
    > almost an Identical job to me in the town next to mine. The
    > funnier thing was that the town I travelled to was the town where he
    > lived. We passed each other on the same motorway every day as we both
    > fought our way through traffic. It doesn't take a genius to see
    > what's wrong with this picture. So It raises the question. What would
    > happen if a law was passed that meant you could only work within a
    > certain radius of your home? This is probably a tad strict, so I
    > thought a better way would be to Tax people on the distance they
    > travel to work. I'm not sure whether this would change how far people
    > travel in general. Common sense says it would, but Then common sense
    > also says that you pay more in Fuel Tax by travelling further anyway.
    > As an aside, have you ever tried to get a wheel chair on a bus? It
    > isn't pretty.
    >
    ### This law was in effect in Soviet Russia, with citizens forbidden to
    travel more than a certain radius from the house assigned to them.

    If you, the other guy and both of your employers had access to all the
    relevant information, arranging a job swap between the two employees so each
    would work in his own town would be ... a snap. This would hopefully prevent
    such sickening ideas as binding citizens to their house (also called
    villeinage) from being formed.

    Rafal



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