Politicians fall back in love with user pays

Politicians fall back in love with user pays
Both Labour and National seem to be promoting user pays of some sort. (Image: Getty)
Dileepa Fonseka
Politicians are falling back in love with user pays as they discover it's preferable to their pet projects not seeing the light of day. It seems political parties can’t stop talking about all manner of charges now except for the ones they can already levy. There are, after all, a lot of charges and levies they can already use, but they are all apparently more difficult than the new tools: we are told putting petrol taxes up will hurt working families, higher road user charges for heavy vehicles will add to price pressures, m...

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