Labour’s $20 Fare Cap: Another Taxpayer-Funded Fantasy Ride
This $20 fare cap looks like just another ride on the taxpayer-funded gravy train, with the rest of New Zealand holding the ticket.
This $20 fare cap looks like just another ride on the taxpayer-funded gravy train, with the rest of New Zealand holding the ticket.
Labour loves these targeted subsidies because they let them pick winners and losers while pretending to care about the cost of living.
So now they get it that no one wants to ride a train where the destination is in some mythical place called Aotearoa. It’s not like everyone apart from sickly white liberals has been complaining about it for years.
The ‘kill switch’ mandate, Massie says at the beginning of his speech that started off the House floor debate over the amendment, “will probably sound like a bad science fiction movie.” However, it is reality.
The railway isn’t a vehicle for changing our beliefs: it’s literally a vehicle for getting us where we need to go. Concentrating solely on that is surely the best way to proceed.
Road-user charges can pay for more than just road maintenance, so why stop there? New Zealand could use electronic road-user charges to encourage all sorts of other behaviours.
It’s hard to take anyone who wears brown shoes with blue suits seriously.
The Government takes the long handle to cycleways and walking projects, prioritising a project to actually get New Zealand moving.