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| Thread ID: 93933 | 2008-10-07 04:43:00 | Auckland petrol tax | rob_on_guitar (4196) | PC World Chat |
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| 710278 | 2008-10-07 04:43:00 | Is the guv ****ed in the head? I dont live in Auckland but how long before it starts happening in other places, or do they want an ass whippin at election time? |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 710279 | 2008-10-07 04:50:00 | Is the guv ****ed in the head? That, and more. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 710280 | 2008-10-07 05:46:00 | Just to be different, I think local taxing is a great idea. Why should someone like pctek pay for Auckland's traffic problems? I can't see Gore needing a huge amount spent on it's roads in the near future, if people want to live away from where the big wages and opportunities are, why should they pay Auckland's road tax? I'm more than happy to pay fuel tax, but not very much so when 90% of it ends up going to Auckland. I'd like to pay for Tasman District roads to be improved, not for extra lanes to be added to Auckland's motorways, which I might user once every 5 years. :2cents: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 710281 | 2008-10-07 06:11:00 | Just to be different, I think local taxing is a great idea. Why should someone like pctek pay for Auckland's traffic problems? I can't see Gore needing a huge amount spent on it's roads in the near future, if people want to live away from where the big wages and opportunities are, why should they pay Auckland's road tax? I'm more than happy to pay fuel tax, but not very much so when 90% of it ends up going to Auckland. :2cents: Maybe then you would like to pay the true cost of fuel in your region rather than the citues like Auckland subsidizing it,..?? |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 710282 | 2008-10-07 06:14:00 | Maybe then you would like to pay the true cost of fuel in your region rather than the citues like Auckland subsidizing it,..?? Say that again? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 710283 | 2008-10-07 06:19:00 | I say toll the roads, rather than putting a tax on petrol. It's user-pays, and a lot more "visible", which will go a long way to encouraging people to use public transportation. | somebody (208) | ||
| 710284 | 2008-10-07 07:26:00 | Maybe then you would like to pay the true cost of fuel in your region rather than the citues like Auckland subsidizing it,..?? I live near Wratty.... we in Motueka already pay several cents a litre more than you do for our gas - not tax but simple costs. |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 710285 | 2008-10-07 07:27:00 | I say toll the roads, rather than putting a tax on petrol . It's user-pays, and a lot more "visible", which will go a long way to encouraging people to use public transportation . That is the real answer . You use the roads, you pay . :thumbs: Why should you have to pay extra on your fuel costs if you are not one of the many clogging up the roads? If you are sensible and do not take your car to work in the city where there is public transport, why should you have to pay extra for your fuel? As we all know, there are too many cars on the roads using imported fuel when we could have commuters in electric trains using local (and clean) power . There are some people that will never get out of their cars, even if they travel to work and home at 5kph, so make the buggers pay . Toll the roads . Don't muck about with a dollar or two - it should be ten dollars, minimum each way, but only in the so called "rush hour . " (What a misnomer! Nobody rushes!) You should not have to pay a toll if you are not clogging the roads in the busy period . COMMUTER Commuter-one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes the train, And then rides back to shave again . - E . B . White, The Commuter |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 710286 | 2008-10-07 07:41:00 | For once i kinda agree with you Roscoe, I just thought in time where the petrol is already taxed and still recovering from huge barrell prices (which have come down, but not at the pump), the guv decides to introduce a new way of taxing the taxed. Maybe cigerette sales on the decrease is forcing them to think of new ways to be greedy, I dont know. Aussie here i come! |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 710287 | 2008-10-07 08:01:00 | For once i kinda agree with you Roscoe, I just thought in time where the petrol is already taxed and still recovering from huge barrel prices (which have come down, but not at the pump), the guv decides to introduce a new way of taxing the taxed. Maybe cigarette sales on the decrease is forcing them to think of new ways to be greedy, I don't know. Aussie here i come! Hang on lad,National will be in soon,then you will be ok. Interesting to note ,half the tax is used administering it. |
Cicero (40) | ||
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