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Mark Hansen has put up a site showing where your taxes go in relation to Government departments. It’s called Where’s My Taxes?
It also breaks down the per capita in spending - how much each person spends.
The Ministry of Transport breakdown is fascinating when it comes to per capital tax.
Auckland’s rail development comes in at $56 per person so i suppose we shouldn’t complain as much.
In non-Treasuryspeak, we're in the crap!
Here is the per capita breakdown:
$406.94 National Land Transport Programme
$170.25 NLTF Borrowing Facility for Short-Term Advances
$152.35 National Land Transport Programme - New Infrastructure for and Renewal of State Highways
$75.09 Rail - New Zealand Railways Corporation Loans
$56.75 Rail - KiwiRail Turnaround Plan Funding
$56.34 Auckland Rail Development
$18.16 Rail - Metro Rail Rolling Stock and Infrastructure (Wellington)
$9.08 Motor Vehicle Registry
$6.84 Policy Advice
$5.20 SuperGold Card - public transport concessions for cardholders
$4.22 Weather Forecasts and Warnings
$4.05 Road User Charges Collection, Investigation and Enforcement
$2.30 Rail Network and Rolling Stock Upgrade
$1.94 Wellington Metro Rail Network Upgrade
$1.36 Bad Debt Provision - Motor Vehicle Registration/Licenses and Road User Charges
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Here’s some other things that ~$56.75/capita can buy us:
MOH $59.03 National Elective Services
MSD $65.52 Hardship Assistance [ie CHC earthquake]
MOE $56.75 Performance-Based Research Fund
MOE $38.93 School Transport
NZDF$59.25 Fixed Wing Transport Forces
Police $67.75 Road Safety Programme
MFAT$61.06 Pacific Development Assistance
Science & Innovation $48.84 Crown Research Institute Core Funding
DOC $37.66 Management of Natural Heritage
So for rail we have
$75.09 Rail – New Zealand Railways Corporation Loans
$56.75 Rail – KiwiRail Turnaround Plan Funding
$56.34 Auckland Rail Development
$18.16 Rail – Metro Rail Rolling Stock and Infrastructure (Wellington)
$2.30 Rail Network and Rolling Stock Upgrade
$1.94 Wellington Metro Rail Network Upgrade
$ 1.23 Rail – Waikato Network Funding
$0.74 Rail – Public Policy Projects
$0.11 Rail – Railway Safety
What is the Waikato Network Funding? What about the Rail Network and Rolling Stock Upgrade (which is separate from the Wellington stuff)
“$170.25 NLTF Borrowing Facility for Short-Term Advances”
Thanks, Minister Joyce, for letting the RONS programmes run over by between 50-150 million PER YEAR, and for thinking that fuel tax revenues will continue for ever at their present levels. Your foresight means that the second highest item of transport costs should instead be called “Whoops, who could have thought of THOSE things???”
Also, Joust, I can only imagine that your comment is meant to imply that the KiwiRail funding is a waste of money? Or am I getting your meaning wrong?
Apart from the fact that that money is essentially paying railway maintenance costs that should have been spread over the PAST time 20 years, rather than run into the ground and now having to be paid as band-aid emergency cash, did you care to make a guess the extra money for state highway maintenance for all the extra roading damage the trucks will do if KiwiRail stops being viable at all?
Whoa, dial down the antagonism. I’m not the one making value judgements.