Very simple logic. People have the freedom of choice in the way
they spend their monies as stated in the constitution. If they like
they can spend on gambling and lose them all without breaking the
law.
So government should govern the country constitutionally and not
interfere with such constitutional right.
The Law Society is currently talking updating the public laws so
as to be fairer to the citizens. Let the Law Society be tasked with
looking into such fundamental issues concerning rights of citizens
and rule of law which the government obviously is not interested in
obeying.
Therefore it is long overdue that government should stop passing
any more laws which prevent the citizens from spending their own
monies in the way they like - freely of their own choice.
If government really must do something to prevent people from
going across the border to shop for cheaper goods in the first
place it should not jack up the prices of such goods unreasonably
beyond their means.
So by abolishing the petrol tax it can easily solve such
problems or reduce the motorist queue to buy petrol after the
causeway.
Second point: Petrol tax was originally introduced to discourage
car ownership. However, since then additional taxes have been
imposed on vehicle ownership and travel e.g. vehicle excise duty,
COE, ERP. Thus petrol tax is now a double taxation on the same
item.
Double taxation is being abolished all over the world as such
taxation is inhibiting free trades and causing inflation and
unemployment.
Third reason: if government is to control people's spending of
their own monies, it had better ensured that when people do not
have monies to spend it will provide for them like lowering the
rising costs of living or looking after their medical needs or
retirements. Until this reciprocality is established the government
has no moral or legal right or reason to interfere with people's
freedom of choice.
