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Taxpayers’ Union
Grant Robertson’s “no new taxes” promise is well and truly out the window.
First, it was new taxes on landlords, then it was a levy on wages to fund unemployment insurance, and now there’s a new tax on petrol vehicles:
The car tax unfairly hits tradies, farmers, and large families, in favour of wealthy urban elites ? buying Teslas who will get a fat taxpayer-funded subsidy. Robin Hood would be turning in his grave.
–> Click here to add your name to the petition against Labour’s car tax <–
Twenty thousand have signed so far.
We’ve also received over a thousand orders for our “Stop Labour’s Car Tax” bumper stickers. Click here to order a sticker.
After you enter your address, you’ll be taken to a donation page. You’re not obliged to donate, but if you’d like to, $2.50 covers the cost of the sticker and postage. Anything extra will be used to extend the reach of the Car Tax campaign.
Fact Check: The Car Tax Won’t Even “Drive down Emissions”
The car tax does zip for saving overall emissions due to transport already being in the Emissions Trading Scheme.
Transport Minister Michael Woods claims that up to 9.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions will be ‘prevented’ by 2050. But land transport is already covered by our cap-and-trade emissions scheme. That means that every emission ‘saved’ frees up credits to make emissions cheaper elsewhere. It’s called the ‘waterbed effect’ and is precisely why the UN recommends against the sort of direct political intervention the Government is pursuing.
Michael Woods either doesn’t understand the ETS or is lying about the environmental benefits of this scheme.
A tax on petrol vehicles simply makes motorists (who already pay ETS levies on fuel) pay even more. It’s a double tax.
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