Larry Williams Drive

Well as far election bribes go, I’ll have this one, thank you! Good move from Chris Hipkins extending the fuel tax discount through to June. To be fair, he had no choice. He could hardly start adding tax back onto fuel in the middle of cost of living crisis, could he?  Honestly, I’m a little surprised by the conversation this afternoon, to hear how many people are ungrateful and are calling it a stupid idea. I mean, be cynical, sure. This is an election bribe, no doubt about it. But being ungrateful and calling it stupid seems weird.  What would you rather have? The Government adding this tax back on and bringing in more money for them to spend? That’s not a good call. I have no confidence that any money I give them ends up making this country better right now. They’ll happily spend $9000 a week on consultants for a media merger that’s not going to happen, and are still to this day leasing office space for a bike bridge they’ve already canned at a cost of $600K. Meanwhile, we have a growing number of potholes