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  • "Perhaps because of the damage the emmissions do? or because its a tax that is easy to collect? or because there is a deficit that needs to be filled? or its a tax that impacts upon everyone?
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    Why is wine taxed so much? Why is vehicle tax so high? Whose going to pay for the NHS? or schools?"
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Letter: Petrol question for government

I think MP Jake Berry’s question about why supermarket petrol prices vary is nothing more than a smokescreen.

He would be better directing his energy and questions to the government he is in.

He should ask why petrol is so heavily taxed in the first instance when, as he says, people are finding it so hard to cope.

Joe Donnelly, Rock Street, Haslingden.

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