"With Australia’s transport emissions at a near-record high, the Productivity Commission is more worried about subsidies for electric vehicles that are just 1% of the cars on our roads, than it is about subsidies for enormous 4WDs that now dominate suburban streets." @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Fuel companies buy very good lunches
Tax breaks for huge, American-style utes cost Australians over $250 million in foregone revenue in 2023, our research showed. Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/big-ute...
No one needs these stupid things. For decades tradies did well with your average offering from Ford and Holden. The bastards don't fit a carparking space by width and length. The argument about towing is bullshit. Either tax them properly, and/or drivers need a medium rigid licence to own one.
And designated out-of-town carparks.
It is not just the voting public that does not understand productivity. It is the Productivity Commission itself
The Productivity Commission seems to be an incompetent think tank that needs to be replaced.
The productivity round table was a cynical exercise in media relations
If the Productivity Commission were serious, they'd be pushing the Aust govt to stop giving away billions in natural resources Aussies own whilst screwing Aussies out of billions in high fees, falling Medicare and disability support, lack of support for SMEs, taxing multinationals appropriately...