I live in the UK, and they have all these stupid one lane roads here (that are two ways) and I'm driving today on a bunch of them and they are all national speed limit roads (60mph) and I'm thinking to myself: “this is so much more dangerous to drive 60 on than driving 11mph over speed limit on the highway.” “Two people from opposite directions driving 60 would just smash into each other in the worst possible way because it's a single lane two way road.” And I realise, speed limits are not about safety, they are about tax. It only matters to the gov to enforce and care about setting speed limits on roads well travelled so they can get their money from “offenders.” But they couldn't care less about actual safety on shitty roads less travelled. I can imagine someone In some catered board meeting saying “why bother setting a speed limit on that road, it doesn't make financial sense to put a camera there.”
This year, the amount of tax I've paid was 74% of my income I've paid: income tax, corporation tax, import tax, council tax, fine for not paying one council tax bill within 30 days, sales tax/vat, NHS tax, stamp duty tax (this was 18% of the above number), road toll tax, fine for not paying road toll tax within 48 hours, parking tickets, fine for not paying parking ticket within 14 days tax, speeding tickets.
I'm really tired, I'm so tired. I'm tired of working so hard and just paying the government everything I have. Someone even showed up at my door threatening to fine me if I didn't sign up to vote?? That's a tax! I want to leave and go to Dubai so badly where there is no tax.
Our last PM lasted like what a month? She now gets a srimand for LIFE of £120k but she just quit immediately. No one wants the job even of running this country because it sucks so much and everytime we get a new PM they are like oh I have this great idea let's find a way to make more tax but hide it behind something they will never notice as tax
WHY DO I BOTHER TO WORK AT ALL??