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I dont know what all the fuss is all about, big deal it gona cost the vaalies another R500 to travel to work and back, rather that than we all get nailed with petrol price increases. People say if you want to "make" money move to JHB, if you want a relaxed lifestyle live in Durbs by the sea. When the vaalies come to Durbs they sure as hell dont look like they are short of cash. the mines are good example, couple million lost in revenue, no big deal, it just means that the shareholders wont be buying an island this year, they will have to settle with a R10 million property on one of the Cape beaches unfortunately. Shame.
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Well privatising public roads and billions go missing every now and then yea... No problem there, will taxi contribute in saving our roads... No... See with this bull$h!t system they get to use the roads for free as public transport. So not only are we paying double because we do actually pay for our roads via licence registrations we start to see a little “why?” do we have to pay MORE because last time I saw files on TV that was blacked out almost completely...
So what is the big deal? Exactly that... We do not know where the money will go...
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Well privatising public roads and billions go missing every now and then yea... No problem there, will taxi contribute in saving our roads... No... See with this bull$h!t system they get to use the roads for free as public transport. So not only are we paying double because we do actually pay for our roads via licence registrations we start to see a little “why?” do we have to pay MORE because last time I saw files on TV that was blacked out almost completely...
So what is the big deal? Exactly that... We do not know where the money will go...
Do you know where your tax money is going, the lotto money, etc, etc. Do you really think you are not going to end up sponsoring this whole fiasco in some form or another, be it fuel increases levies or whatever. I would rather the people in JHB pay for it than we all get lumped with the cost, we are not going to benifit from the new roads.
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Agreed Phil. We are paying 50% fuel levies so think about this: fill up your car 60 liters of petrol at R12, that means that when you fill up you give our government R360, I fill up 6 times per month on average, now put that into perspective of how many billion does government collect from fuel every month and now we must pay for roads because few people pocketed large sums of money to make this happen and we have to pay for it? And all they do is keep increasing the government spending therefore looking for ways to collect more money in taxes and etc
Do you know where your tax money is going, the lotto money, etc, etc. Do you really think you are not going to end up sponsoring this whole fiasco in some form or another, be it fuel increases levies or whatever. I would rather the people in JHB pay for it than we all get lumped with the cost, we are not going to benifit from the new roads.
ians... ignorance is bliss... enjoy your weekend.
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I think that all we seen from the Bill phase of etolling to the latest developments is a facade. A sharade meant to dupe the SA people into thinking that protracted debate took place, consultations were sufficient, the toll price per km is reasonable, and that South Africans want etolling!
Here the State should have seen its subjects dissatisfaction and just scrapped the whole idea.
Don't think that KZN or theCape will not be affected.
As soon as Gautengaleng is in the E-Toll pocket, your area will be next. They will come and put up gantries, all in the name of improving the infrastructure. They did start in CT, but abandoned it when the Gautengalengers started their objections to this.
The last I heard is that most provinces want SANRAL to take over the road maintenance programs, which invariably means - e-tolling in your area.
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The suppliers will pay the tolls, and built it into their costs, which will be passed on to retailers, which will be passed on to consumers.
So, you pay via petrol or retailer - all the same!
Well, at least the taxis will be paying some form of tax. They are currently exempt, yet they are the biggest cause of accidents and congestion on our roads.
Interesting comment by Pravin Gordhan;
By: Sapa
21st September 2012
"Theoretically, if the government wants to go and collect tolls tomorrow, it can go ahead and collect them, but that's not the issue," Gordhan told SAfm on Friday morning.
In line with Jacob Zuma's statement in parliament that they can do as they want. Minorities have no rights.
The rich will become richer and in the end the poor must provide, they always do. Fact is Taxis are looked at as public transport and yet for any minority it is a 50/50 chance in getting there safely or being mugged murdered. This has happened before.
I would rather pay more for my petrol then what I would pay for this e-toll crap. Now am I crazy? Consider this, with petrol prices increased the rich will still get their money but this time around everyone including the road abusing taxies gets to pay not just the public. Thus everyone must carry the burden and get angry at the supper elite.
In the end I fear that they will place an e-toll system on every single road you can think of I would be surprised if you don’t find them on dirt roads. And in the end petrol prices will still see an all time high.
It is time that the responsible majority wake up and consider if they actually still can afford to keep the supper elite in power.
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