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It's only a hundy to register my v8 Fairmont Ghia
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Your argumet is irrelevant, you want these services but don't want to pay for them
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Dan’s retired Trev… No need to bat for him anymore
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Current vehicles.. Yamaha Rhino UTV, SWB 4L TJ Jeep, and boring Lhd RAV4 Bionic BF F6... UPDATE: Replaced by Shiro White 370z 7A Roadster. SOLD Workhack: FG Silhouette XR50 Turbo ute (11.63@127.44mph) SOLD 2 wheels.. 2015 103ci HD Wideglide.. SOLD SOLD THE LOT, Voted with our feet and relocated to COSTA RICA for some Pura Vida! (Ex Blood Orange #023 FPV Pursuit owner ![]() |
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I live in a regional Victorian city, we have a new multi-storey hospital wing, a new secondary school. Our railway line is being upgraded as we speak to 2 lines for more frequent newer trains, PLUS I can go to Melbourne and back on the train for $9
This is a blue riibon L/NP seat that had an Independent for 2 terms, now gone back to Nats. His Government has delivered for us
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Ahh who cares? Just rip up another billion dollars!
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Current vehicles.. Yamaha Rhino UTV, SWB 4L TJ Jeep, and boring Lhd RAV4 Bionic BF F6... UPDATE: Replaced by Shiro White 370z 7A Roadster. SOLD Workhack: FG Silhouette XR50 Turbo ute (11.63@127.44mph) SOLD 2 wheels.. 2015 103ci HD Wideglide.. SOLD SOLD THE LOT, Voted with our feet and relocated to COSTA RICA for some Pura Vida! (Ex Blood Orange #023 FPV Pursuit owner ![]() |
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I'm on Melbourne's rural fringe and we got no train, no hospital, if you need an ambulance then it's an hour plus wait and our roads are halal but that's what you get for being a safe seat for a major party, all the dollars seem to miss us ![]() Hold up, we actually got a roundabout but it took 2.5 election cycles from election promise, to $250,000 study about the roundabout, to finally putting in the roundabout. I've been here for 29 years and in that time we've increased population by 300% and got two pedestrian crossings, a roundabout and the world's lamest skate park (but that was 20 years ago now). Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 20-10-2023 at 05:20 PM. |
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Tell these people on here about road user tax, diesel and keeping logbooks for diesel powered vehicles
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Victoria should never have signed on for the lame duck called Commonwealth Games. Great decision to flick them
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My city Tauranga is the most traffic conjested in the country ,we also have the largest export port in the country so it works real well ,we have the most toll roads in the country one of them you pay $5 in a truck and it can take 30-40 min to get 500m ....crazy , they started building two flyover at the Mount 4 years ago single lane each way still not finished grid lock all day every day There's a big hooha in Auckland at the moment because a big sink hole appeared and a sewer line ruptured been like it for weeks it's pouring millions of litres of raw sewage into the harbour every day ....the pipe was put there in around 1910 -14
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The average age of a truck driver 3 years ago was 57 ...in another 5 years there will be none left ... .but I spose they'll just get more from India ![]()
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Don't smoke anything, was there any need for that comment?
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The roads I use mostly are toll roads (I don't pay for fuel, so happy to pay tolls) I only use private hospitals Kids will go to private schools Given you'd like a user pays setup, should I not pay less tax given I don't use these govt facilities? Or do I have to pay it for those who aren't doing the right thing.
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And taxing those that are doing well or working harder isn't a great solution either. (I'm happy to pay my share to help those less fortunate than me. Just leave my EV free from some fake tax. I already pay more than my fair share!)
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and so does nearly every other tax payer in Australia, including subsidising your road use
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Maybe all new vehicles could be sold with a itemised resources tax included.
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Guess where you get sent when your private hospital operation has complications? And when's the last time you went private in an emergency? Not to mention that not a single doctor you will ever use was trained in the private system. Private schools also receive a lot of federal funding. Reality is, you're using a lot of publicly funded infrastructure, whether it is publicly owned or not. It is only a quirk that sees EVs avoid road usage charges. You can bet had the government of the day known that ICE cars would one day be replaced by EVs, they'd have found a way to tax km's travelled by some means other than fuel use. |
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Actually, the hospital that I go to is Private with emergency. And no, they don't send us to a public hospital after either. I've had a few procedures and surgeries over the years, all in Private hospitals without ever going to a public hospital. Yes, private schools do get funding. Point I was leaning to was user pay. The Victorian setup was that they paid for kms travelled even in other states. The system was bad and unfair that Victoria collected money for kms driven in NSW for example. The only fair way would be a federal tax. And EV owners can't be blamed for shortsighted govt policy. Where do you stop? LPG generates less excise and was free of excise for decades. EVs have no excise and everyone loses their mind. No one was protesting LPG
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Think you missed the point. We shouldn't just dig it up and send it overseas. We should be designing and building here. We should be innovating here and using those resources to support local industry and design.
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And yes, obviously I was being facetious (I'm guessing that's what you meant and not "fictious" which isn't a word).
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LPG has less excise and was free of excise for decades. E85 pays excise on 15% of the fuel.
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There was a point ?
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Between Franco and I...
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LPG/E85 didn't get this much attention but EVs have. Think you missed the point... Again.
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