And the old man rants on, a paradox, as usual

So, our beloved racist rants on again. This time, he says that tax / AP / excise duties is a must - or else, traffic will be unbearable.

Do you think it is true that, if cars are cheaper traffic jams will be worse? I get it, it is bad enough now. An absolute horror show at times - made worse by rain or a fucktard who decides to drive up the road divider when he is drunk.

So, back to the question again: Will roads be more congested if cars where cheaper? Think about it. Seriously. And now, I present my thoughts.

First of all, taxing cars to solve traffic congestion is like cutting of all dicks when male babies are born to stop rape. Think about it. How many percent of Malaysia is truly suffering from traffic jams? Why tax the kampung folks as well? Or tax the retirees who will never join rush hour? How about areas that doesn't even come with proper roads? Yes - this is how stupid we have led to be for so many years.

And really - how many additional cars will there be on the road if cars where cheaper? Will you buy 20 cars if cars where cheaper? No. You will just get one better car, and sell the older one. You don't see me carrying 20 cheap-RM80 - Nokia phones around, thank you very much.

Of course - the poor will buy one car. Every tom dick and harry will buy a car. Huh? Does anyone have any data to show jams are caused by cheap cars? No. Every tom dick and harry is getting a car because car loans are cheap; and too easily available. If only they have a will to cap the loan - like loan for only 50% of the total value. The next real problem is - please stop subsidizing on petrol.

The next few ways to solve traffic congestion is by public transport and proper tolls. Public transport - we are only getting started. But it's a good move. But will people take public transport by the masses? I suspect, not really. Security has to be improved. No one wants to end up dead by the roadside as a result of snatch theft. That's a true sore point. It must be addressed.

Tolls - needless to say why - we ended up with a truly inferior and obselete near-Infra Red technology. Yup - that's the idiotic Smart - Tag. It causes more jam than ever. One has to slow down just for others to rob us. Funny eh? Now, imagine if we used the faster, cheaper (USD 1) RFID tags. Toll could be collected when cars drive past at 90km per hour. New technology allows time-based toll collection - much like the Singaporean system. At peak hours - charge more toll. At mid night, make sure it is free. That would help solve traffic jams rights? But alas, we prefer to chop up every guy's dick.

We could have special permits for KL jam zone only; or peak hour use pass. The funds from such passes - use it to fund public transport. We could reduce tax for smaller cars (Kancils) and increase tax for those that take up more space. And superbikes - please reduce taxes on those too. Make it zero tax, for superbikes. They don't take up much space, neither do they burn petrol like a 4WD.

I hear you. We should tax luxury cars. Sure - you can tax cars worth more than RM 500,000 (factory price). But guess what? Right now, those rich enough can get away with a simple "you help me, I help you". How on earth did they smuggle luxury cars from an island called Langkawi?

But of course - if you leave it to the grand old man - all the problems can be solved by just keeping cars expensive. This is not even putting brains in parked mode. This is putting the entire nation on reverse gear.