Anne (Anne Thormey - primary proponent arguing we should pay for water)

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Liveline · "We don't seem to want to pay for necessary things" · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

But we should pay for something that we don't have enough of.

And then we use less of it.

It didn't.

In France, you have no road tax anymore.

You don't have to have road tax anymore.

You don't have to have the thing on your window.

You know why?

Three years ago,

Three years ago, well, there's a lot of motorways and auto routes that you have to pay big money on.

Three years ago, they raised it and there was a riot.

Something like 5,000 lorries blocked the motorways, just blocked them.

And so the government decided, the French government can be quite bitchy, but they can be very smart.

They decided we will get rid of the taxation for everybody.

So it means if I drive my car 75 miles a week, I still have to pay it.

I don't have to pay it anymore.

Whereas if you drive a truck 750 miles a day, and they raise the price of getting through the tolls.

So where they're getting their money back is from the people who use the motorways.

Yeah.

But I mean, we have in Ireland, we have three expressions.

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