Re: Alice Springs to Darwin line, but wait, there is more.!

["Bill Miller" <backtran@optusnet.com.au>]

Most of the taxes you mention are revenue collection exercises that ALL
businesses pay. To say that the road industry is short changed by not having
all the 15.5bn put back in would be the same as a factory owner claiming the
government should build his factory for him simply because he pays taxes. To
compare this to the 150m on the rail excise is simply not comparing equals.

If trucks have road user charges then these (and only these) should be put
back into roads. The balance of tax is a burden everyone should bear and
goes into consoldated revenue.


< Tell > wrote in message ...
>OK, the total taxes (Fed & State) collected from ALL
>road users including fuel excise, sales tax, rego,
>stamp duties, parts etc amount to a staggering $15.5
>BILLION annually, and these figures are a couple of
>years old.
>
>The spending on roads is just under $2 BILLION.!
>
>How many $BILLIONS does rail contribute to the coffers
>per year, they were tax and excise exempt for years.?
>
>As for the rail fuel excise, when Fed Labor was in
>government they forced railways to pay a fuel excise,
>it netted for the coffers around $120 to $150 million
>from memory, as I said before ....peanuts.
>
>The Libs have now removed that excise on rail.
>
>----Terry Burton
>Alice Springs NT
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