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High taxes driving motorists up the wall

Since independence, every finance minister has found taxing motorists irresistible. It is like that pretty girl in the front pew in church. You should not be thinking about her, let alone look at her but you cannot resist it.

Finance ministers know they have already taxed the motorist a zillion times but when there is a deficit in the budget, they still raid the motorist’s pockets.

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