The Taxpayer’s Union has called the proposed hike in petrol tax in January cruel and said it should be postponed until at least the end of the cost of living crisis when inflation is back under 3 per cent.
The 25-cent fuel tax reduction was announced earlier this year following a Taxpayers’ Union campaign that highlighted the 52 per cent of the pump price that went to fund taxes and levies.
Taxpayer’s Union Campaign Manager, Callum Purves, said:
“With inflation above 7 per cent and interest rates still on the rise, the cost of living crisis is going to get worse before it gets better. Whacking up the fuel tax by 25-cents in January could not come at a worse time for New Zealanders.
“And that’s before we consider the effects of further sanctions on Russian oil and cartels in the Middle East cutting deals to reduce production. Petrol prices are not going to come down any time soon. It would be cruel for the Government to push them up even further.
“To their credit, the Government responded to the situation earlier this year. But things have got worse—not better. At the very least, Labour now needs to rule out hiking the fuel tax until the cost of living crisis is over and inflation is back under control.”
So there are 2 factors operating here:
1. Dr. Evil Putin is to blame?
2. Mrs. Evil Ardern is to blame?
If the West and by that well oiled term I mean ‘Amorica’ hadn’t pushed Russia into defending her borders, oil would flow as usual.
If the World Economic Fascists Kiwi school dux Vaccinda, wasn’t ruining this coutry via seperatism & climate masturbations then we would be in a better place.
Things are going to get worse because those who hold the rings of power do not know otherwise. To those who wake very morning and believe the world situation is better than when sleep took them I feel only pity. To live in that false bubble must be hell when the ballon pops as surely it will…
‘To live in that false bubble must be hell when the ballon pops as surely it will…’
So true Chris, they are like enchanted children not realising the danger and privations ahead.
Putin has become of the object of the ‘2 minutes hate’ as in the book 1984. He has largely although not totally replaced Trump.
They don’t care as they don’t want people driving ICEs anyway and that also goes for anyone in trade who may go to a politician’s house to do work.
This is a good channel where the host lays bare the idiocy of owning an electric vehicle. He says he’s not a conspiracy theorist (a redundant, free speech quashing device) and demonstrates how owning one of these white elephants means he often misses out on being able to charge the vehicle and runs late.
He baldly states that they exist as a means of control.
And more on control:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/egADhS7C9C2Z/