No new taxes, yeah right!

[harm_less]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/t...K4C63BQFI/

As expected Luxon and his coalition buddies will take a 'shell game' approach to taxation, in this case transport related.

Increased vehicle registration fees as well as increases in fuel tax and RUC rates, and a review of these measures in 3 years time which is likely to see added carbon taxation if NZ wants to comply with its Paris Agreement ETS responsibilities. In addition NACT have pulled funding on coastal shipping, Auckland Light Rail and public transport and cycling initiatives thereby ringfencing their taxation gathering net from NZ motorists, and ensuring the Road Transport Industry is placated complete with the ongoing damage to our roading infrastructure.

Just as Luxon has demonstrated he is in the job for the benefit of #1 the Nat's are very much engineering their policies to benefit their corporate donors. We as a country are being sold down the road (pun intended).

[Zurdo]

And they want old ''dangerous'' cars off the road. I hope they don't bring back that stupid tiered rego system, where and old dangerous car cost more to register than a modern ''safe'' car. Of course that meant people who couldn't afford a ''safe'' car paid more in rego - it was a National policy of course, costing the poor, favouring the rich.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

The old dangerous car that people could fix themselves, and that poorer people could afford? Those cars?

[Zurdo]

Yes, those ones - they are better off getting out of that death trap and going to a loan shark to get the money to put on a much better car from the car yard, who have imported a used car from Japan (because it's too dangerous to be on Japanese roads), and he will slip them into a nice easy time payment deal and make a good profit. He may even get the car back to resell when they can't afford the repayments and he repossesses it.

[Lilith7]

They do seem awfully keen for people to die, don't they, what with the massive U turn on smoking & now sweet buggerall done to prevent cars polluting the environment. LUxon's right in that we do need a modern transport system, but he must be well aware that many world cities tend to have light rail systems; they had the sense to set them up decades ago.

And we didn't.



"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon suggested he was unconcerned about the cost overruns, saying building a modern transport system was crucial, and hinted the shortfall in funding could be made up by using tools like public-private partnerships.

“We cannot keep doing things the way we’ve been doing it,” Luxon said, when saying he made no apologies for using “innovative” funding tools to improve infrastructure.

[harm_less]

They do seem awfully keen for people to die, don't they, what with the massive U turn on smoking & now sweet buggerall done to prevent cars polluting the environment. LUxon's right in that we do need a modern transport system, but he must be well aware that many world cities tend to have light rail systems; they had the sense to set them up decades ago.

And we didn't.



"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon suggested he was unconcerned about the cost overruns, saying building a modern transport system was crucial, and hinted the shortfall in funding could be made up by using tools like public-private partnerships.

“We cannot keep doing things the way we’ve been doing it,” Luxon said, when saying he made no apologies for using “innovative” funding tools to improve infrastructure.

Luxon is laying the groundworks for selling major infrastructure construct contracts, and probably the long term ownership of them, off to offshore corporations or states. Just like Key before him he will be all too willing to sell off anything of value that's not tied down, that's why Chris Bishop's interview this morning was so worrying (in part).

[Lilith7]

They do seem awfully keen for people to die, don't they, what with the massive U turn on smoking & now sweet buggerall done to prevent cars polluting the environment. LUxon's right in that we do need a modern transport system, but he must be well aware that many world cities tend to have light rail systems; they had the sense to set them up decades ago.

And we didn't.



"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon suggested he was unconcerned about the cost overruns, saying building a modern transport system was crucial, and hinted the shortfall in funding could be made up by using tools like public-private partnerships.

“We cannot keep doing things the way we’ve been doing it,” Luxon said, when saying he made no apologies for using “innovative” funding tools to improve infrastructure.

Luxon is laying the groundworks for selling major infrastructure construct contracts, and probably the long term ownership of them, off to offshore corporations or states. Just like Key before him he will be all too willing to sell off anything of value that's not tied down, that's why Chris Bishop's interview this morning was so worrying (in part).

He does remind me of Key quite strongly, particularly in the way he speaks - ultra smooth, with lots of oily lubrication & a large number of words with little or no meaning...

I'm not feeling especially friendly towards those people who just didn't bother to vote in the last election, & hope that: A)  they do so next time, & B) not too much damage has been done by then.