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  • Softening us up for more User Charges - There is no Alternative!

    From Rich80105@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 23 22:18:18 2024
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/514998/existing-roads-could-be-tolled-officials-tell-transport-minister-simeon-brown

    The government is getting desperate to justify its tax cuts - but in
    this case I can see Simeon Brown putting a toll of the Mt Vic tunnel
    and all entries to the Motorway to Petone or Porirua to pay for a 4km
    folly tunnel from the Basin Reserve to the Motorway. We can expect bad decisions on top of bad decisions from this government - they will tax
    whatever they can to move tax away from high income earners towards
    all users of services.

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  • From Crash@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 24 07:56:13 2024
    On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:18:18 +1200, Rich80105 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/514998/existing-roads-could-be-tolled-officials-tell-transport-minister-simeon-brown

    The government is getting desperate to justify its tax cuts - but in
    this case I can see Simeon Brown putting a toll of the Mt Vic tunnel
    and all entries to the Motorway to Petone or Porirua to pay for a 4km
    folly tunnel from the Basin Reserve to the Motorway. We can expect bad >decisions on top of bad decisions from this government - they will tax >whatever they can to move tax away from high income earners towards
    all users of services.

    Yet another post full of anti-Government rhetoric. There is no such
    tunnel and planning has just begun. If it is ever approved then
    decisions about funding will be made then. Your conjecture is so
    premature it is absurd and irrational - and so is the rest of your
    post.


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    Crash McBash

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Apr 23 21:20:40 2024
    Rich80105 <[email protected]> wrote: >https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/514998/existing-roads-could-be-tolled-officials-tell-transport-minister-simeon-brown

    The government is getting desperate to justify its tax cuts - but in
    this case I can see Simeon Brown putting a toll of the Mt Vic tunnel
    and all entries to the Motorway to Petone or Porirua to pay for a 4km
    folly tunnel from the Basin Reserve to the Motorway. We can expect bad >decisions on top of bad decisions from this government - they will tax >whatever they can to move tax away from high income earners towards
    all users of services.
    I have no problem with toll roads and toll tunnels, these days the task of collecting the tolls is trivial and non-invasive. Why do you oppose them?
    There is no desperation in this government, only in their critics. The government is implementing what the majority of voters want - democracy finally, after a 6 year wait.

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