You're right about metrics appearing at times
Post share-consolidation ALF was another with similar incorrect metrics / NTA etc for a while
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Petrol prices: The problem with price dropping to 80c a litre
https://www.news.com.au/finance/econ...6a093b6efe6bec
the biggest price difference between NZ and AUS i think ever
Help, I bleed blue and have always voted that way but I think the chief fleecer has been doing a very good job with Covid 19 and also did a very good job with her response to the Chch Mosque attack. I'm actually starting to really like her...maybe I have a bad case of Stockholm syndrome in lockdown lol
More likely with high blood pressure and at my age I feel she has done a good job looking after at risk people like me.
Perhaps the fact that I haven't been driving lately so haven't been fleeced by the hefty road taxes could also have something to do with it :)
Anyway back to Z...quite an interesting article in the behind the paywall Herald about NZR and what its costing its shareholders including ZEL and inadequate return on capital
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12327734
Yes, I know where you're coming from. My main concern is that at this rate, it may end up being a Labour majority and no Winnie required for a coalition, which means no one to keep them honest when it comes to the likes of CGT and other fleecing mechanisms. Still, we've a few months for a recession to hit home and possibly change the landscape somewhat, and for the Nat's to find an inspirational leader...where's that Tui?
Oh for goodness sake. Fleeced?? Most OECD countries have chunky fuel tax. US is an obvious exception but have you driven on their decrepit roads and navigated the arcane ways to pay the rather high tolls? Dreadful model. Someone has to pay for stuff and fuel tax seems a reasonable model for a non-communist state. If any of you can demonstrate that all the costs of road transport (including policing, ambulancery, hospitals, environment and long term pollution costs blah blah) are materially lower than all the related road tax paid then brilliant, present it. Did National reduce fuel tax? I dont recall it.
Oh for goodness sake, chill. TaxCinda coined the phrase when she said we were being fleeced by the fuel companies. The irony was not lost on many. Anyway, what contribution are those electric cars making towards the cost of road transport, while the less well-heeled are taxed heavily to drive to work in their old gas guzzling tanks?
So true.
Went to Houston twice last year. The roads were abominable - pot holes in so many places, truly shocking condition and this was just outside the galleria area. Worst roads ever in any Western country we have driven in. A decent fuel tax to fund this would help but then again Yankees have this aversion to any government and taxes - something about god, guns and liberty (for the rich).
I think some of you are taking the political thing a little too seriously. If you don't think there is irony in a government (be that a Labour or a National lead one) suggesting we're being fleeced by the fuel companies, then I don't know what to say. Not sure what a litre of 91 costs atm as I haven't bought any for over a month, but let's say it's $1.80... That has about 74c worth of fuel excise tax in it, then another 23c in GST (~10c of which is tax on tax). So over 50% tax before you even consider the tax a fuel company might pay on any profit. Yes, I'm sure it all goes to worthy places blah blah, but my point remains, it's a little ironic for a government to suggest we are being fleeced by the fuel companies.