tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-59181987149522201112008-03-14T13:08:00.005Z2008-03-14T13:18:31.062ZHave just been speaking to someone I know that is an above the knee amputee on one leg. As you can imagine this means that when he drives he needs to have an automatic. He drives a dieseal Zafira and will have to pay £210 in 2008/09 for it. Meanwhile the manual, with the same engine, but different emissions because of the difference in the gearbox, will pay £145.<br /><br />If he decides to replace the car in 2010-11, he will be expected to pay for the first year, road tax of £425 for the auto compared to £250 for the manual. He doesn't <i>want</i> to buy an auto but he <i>has</i> to. So much for fairness and equality for the disabled huh? The green budget is really just another ordinary tax-hike budget, and the losers seems to be the very people that Labour claims to be on the side of.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22202011-5918198714952220111?l=dizzythinks.net'/></div>dizzynoreply@blogger.com12