The biggest scam they've got going at the moment is the ETS tax of 10 cents.

Added: 2026-05-29

[00:00:00]So, cap GST at pre-conflict pricing levels, curb fuel excise tax by 50%.

[00:00:07]You just alluded to the future tax increases. So, you're saying cancel all that right at this point?

[00:00:13]Yeah, well, we don't need it. No one needs any more fuel tax or any more price put on anything.

[00:00:20]I I'm saying yeah. And remove I would say remove the biggest scam they've got going at the moment is the ETS tax of 10 cents. It's a minimum of 10 cents that's charged to the fuel companies and then it's added on at the pump and we're paying for it. So, the fuel companies aren't even paying the fee share, they're just handing it on to us. And that ETS tax is not being used for any sort of climate fund. It's ridiculous.

[00:00:42]It's just going into the big It's going into the big consolidated pot. They haven't done anything >> like some sort of scam? Is that like some sort of scam? It well, sounds like it, doesn't it? It sounds like a big money go round.

[00:00:53]Okay. Stop and scrap the RUC system temporarily.

[00:00:59]That's a big move, isn't it?

[00:01:02]Yeah, possibly is. I It might be too big. I mean, the pushback on that is that we need it to fix our roads, but the other side of it is we want to know what they're actually doing with the road user charges. It's really, really murky where they're spending this money because it it all seems to go All these taxes seem to go into a great big pot that are being allocated by different organizations. There's no actual clear path what they're doing. How much of the road user charges, for example, are being used on rainbow crossings and cycleways? You know, just put a sticker next to it. But the road user charges, the heavy vehicle transport industry is saying, you know, that they want the roads fixed so they can carry on doing freight and things like that. But how much of it's being sucked away for other projects? And it's very, very hard to get that sort of information out of them. We want that tidied up.

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