Lydia Peeters legt rekeningrijden op tafel bij Vlaamse ministerraad: “Slimme, gebiedsdekkende kilometerheffing”

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1. You can say what you want about them liberals, but they must have a serious set of cojones.

2. I smell a ten billion IT contract that will be cancelled in 2035.

3. Since when are liberals pushing taxes?? 90% of why people vote on liberals is to get less taxes & less government.

4. Absurd…een mens gaan belasten om op deze manier te voorkomen of te verminderen waar hij/zij gaat of staat.

5. Dit komt dus neer op een driedubbele belasting:
   1) belasting op brandstof
   2) belasting op voertuig
   3) belasting op kilometers

   De werkgever zal dit wel betalen voor de firmawagens, maar hoe zit het met de rest? Wie geen firmawagen heeft en met de fiets of het openbaar vervoer kan doet het nu al, niet?

6. Liberals proposing new taxes. Weird times…

   Let me fix it for them: The government role should be a limited to provide basic infrastructure so humans can develop, but not mess with individual lives.

7. Im really not a fan. I work pretty far from home. Don’t have a car from work. So I will be royally fucked.
   It’s not always easy to find a job close to home, so why do I have to be punished. It just makes me mad.
   Start asking money from al the trucks that use us as a transit country first.

8. I hope it gets through. Most mobility experts agree that this is a necessary step.

   Furthermore it just seems logical that the people who are the most responsible for the negative externalities associated with driving (pollution, traffic jams, wearing down of infrastructure..) are the ones who have to pay the most for it.

9. we ‘re heading up to 99% tax

10. 24/7 tracking of your vehicle. Next step? Match cars of unemployed people with this data to find ‘zwartwerkers’.

11. Good idea, but seeing as the actual practical implementation of this is not even mentioned, I’m not going to take this seriously for the moment… I think the last time they came up with this it was something along the line of “well people will just install an app!”.

    The way to make this fair btw, is to get CAO’s set up to make employers reimburse their employees for the cost of commutes. Maybe it’s another step to stop stubborn employers from forcing their employees into traffic jams.

12. Always treating the symptoms, never the problems.
    It’s odd how we’ve taken almost no lessons from Covid experience.
    We already know working from home is a solution. Start taxing companies for forcing people to come to work when they’re able to do work from home.
    People aren’t the reason why they’re on the road. Companies are.
    And do the same for schools while you’re at it – these kids will grow up in a digital age, they already do the vast majority of their lives on the internet – and will do so at their jobs for sure as well.