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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Road user charges for everyone not the answer
Description: For an outfit that doesn’t like red tape, the National Party seems to be having some sort of brain explosion. Because it doesn't just want EV owners to pay road user charges - which I don’t think anyone would disagree with - it also wants to go the whole hog and get rid of fuel taxes completely and make everyone pay road user charges. So, at the moment, if you drive a petrol vehicle, you pay your bit for building and maintaining roads through a fuel excise tax. Which is simple as, because - bein...