The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 13th June 2017
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This government will steal from anywhere to achieve their ill-gotten gains.
Think of Ebenezer Scrooge and you are looking at the ugly face of Bull English and Steven Joyce and their Nactional junta.
But of course they will move to protect their own members as they cut and steal from others, so we need to get rid of these thugs come September for sure.
Last week the Nactional Government again stole from us all the tax payer again when they took the subsidies off the rural roading network all around NZ and put that money into the “roads of national significance”, (RONs) which is a fancy word for subsidised “truck routes”, they make me sick with their twisted under-underhanded methods of pilfering our taxes for their purposes.
Article quote: unseal roads cost $1500 per kilometre to maintain – however when logging activity involved maintenance cost increases to $10,000 a kilometre (says Stratford District Council)
Should logging trucks be forced to pay more to repair the damage they cause on unsealed roads?
It is a hot topic in some rural communities.
“The costs certainly go up, so we have to try and find the money from somewhere. Councils throughout the country really are faced with this situation, they will be looking at all the ways they can to try and recover some of those costs, but ultimately they fall back on the ratepayers,” says Mayor of Stratford Neil Volzke.
The debate has been triggered by an announcement – from the New Zealand Transport Agency – that it is changing the way it funds roading maintenance.
From next year – it will spend more of it’s budget on nationally significant roads – and less on rural roads.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11873074
We have long seen the Road transport Forum (Truck lobby) complain that we should not subsidise rail but this is now happening as we are being forced to subsidise trucks and not rail now!!!!!!!!!!!