The person you responded to was talking about tyre size as an indicator of vehicle size, and you started talking about people not replacing tyres that are worn, because they wouldn't want to pay these hypothetical taxes on their big tyres. I know you are advocating for that, but we already have a better system than it.

Taxing based on size, weight, and emissions of a car's known specification from the factory is drastically simpler, and doesn't allow for loopholes like your tax at the time of purchase on tyres, where people just decide not to get tyres. To drive a vehicle in the UK, you must have paid road tax, have insurance as a driver, and a valid MOT (safety check and inspection certificate issued annually).

Taxing tyres isn't any more inherantly fair than the way we do it now. Plus, tyres last years on the average car. You'd have many people going 3/4 years between charges. My Road tax is £220 a year - am I supposed to pay £1000 every 4 years for tyres? Really?

What happens when you get a flat tyre from a nail? You expect people to pay a large premium again? No? Well then how do you stop people taking tyres they drove a nail into themselves as a way of avoiding paying Road Tax?

There's no need to complicate things trying to take into account how much a person is hauling on any given day, or how many miles they drive. You tax tham annually on how polluting their car is, and how big it is as a proxy for how much stress it puts on the physical road surface.

They're not talking about a tax on a tyre when you buy a new tyre. They're talking about a tax on the car based on how big the tyres it requires are.

They're saying, big car, big tax, little car, little tax.

VED, also known as Road Tax in the UK, is based on emissions.

It’s not America, they’re not going to call it Freedom Hole, or something.

“Durdle is derived from the Old English thirl, meaning to pierce, bore or drill, which in turn derives from thyrel, meaning hole.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durdle_Door

I thought about building a PC the other day. A 3050 alone costs more than my Series S did.

It’s not a question of affordability for me, it’s a question of justification. What does spending £800-1000 on an entry level machine actually get me, above and beyond my console?

Is whatever that is, actually worth a 3/4x cost of entry versus what I paid for my Series S? I just don’t see it anymore.

These prices, you could buy a PS5, Series X, Switch, and a Steam Deck for the same price as the flagship cards.