Discrimination in discrimination
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WORKING on the principle that the early bird catches the worm, the Road Haulage Association has already told Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, what it expects of him in his next Budget. For starters there is the barely veiled suggestion that he double-crossed hauliers over vehicle excise duty in the Budget of 1984.
It is strange that a society which has put crime into discrimination should accept it happily when it applies to commercial-vehicle taxation. A farmer with a 38-tonne artic pays £1,020 a year on it but the professional haulier with whom he may be competing has to find £3,100. Some opportunities in industry are more equal than others.
I wish the BHA well but if experience is any guide, the early worm will get the bird.