As the number of cars increases, more money has to be spent on road systems. Some people think the government should pay for this. Others, however, think that the drivers should cover the costs. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Nowadays,
road
systems
have become more and more important in
modern
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world due
the
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increasing number of cars. Some people think that
government
should take
the
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responsibility
responsibilty
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responsibility
to
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road
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system,
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however
howerver
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however
other people think that
drivers
should pay for the cost. My view is that
government
should pay for the
road
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systems
sytems
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systems
and the
drivers
should pay for the
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maintenance
maintiance
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maintenance
. On the one hand, it is obvious that only the
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official
offical
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official
department has enough money to build a
road
system all over the
country
.
This
is because the
government
get taxes from citizens and some other business and the
government
has
right
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to use taxes to build roads for the
country
.
Moreover
, Only the
government
has
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resource
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to build a good transport network around the
country
.
For example
, the
government
can do full research and plan better
road
systems
for
next
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100 years, which is impossible for individuals. So
government
should pay for the rest of
road
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systems
.
On the other hand
,
drivers
have no responsibility to cover the costs.
Drivers
already pay a lot of different taxes before they used the
road
.
For instance
,
drivers
need to pay a
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transfer
tansfer
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transfer
fee when they build a car and
oil
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tax when they fill
petrol
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. So
drivers
should not spend anything on building a new
road
. In the end, I think that the
government
need to pay all the money to build good
road
systems
over the
country
.
However
,
drivers
has
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no duty to cover the costs as they already pay different kinds of tax before they drove, meanwhile the
government
has the right to ask
drivers
to pay for some parts of the highway due to maintenance fees. In summary, governments need to make sure that money has been used correctly to build a good transport network for citizens.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • equitable access
  • public service
  • comprehensive planning
  • financial burden
  • user-pay principle
  • traffic congestion
  • encourage sustainable transportation
  • fair distribution of costs
  • direct benefit
  • road taxes
  • tolls
  • revenue
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