Petrol tax increase proposed in South Africa

What is so hard to grasp for the incompetent ***** in charge, about implementing compulsory 3rd party insurance for all vehicles, that includes cover for personal injury claims. Nothing novel about the idea. We had it before, and almost every other semi functional country on earth has it as well.

Problem solved in one single pen stroke, and no more need for a corrupt government looting pool.
 
porchrat said:
It's clearly mired in corruption. Just do what others have suggested, scrap the whole thing and make 3rd party insurance mandatory.
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and who will enforce it? were already a lawless and broke society where if somebody gets hurt, if you call the ambulance,
first question they ask is do they have medical aid and funds in it.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
and who will enforce it? were already a lawless and broke society where if somebody gets hurt, if you call the ambulance,
first question they ask is do they have medical aid and funds in it.
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Well, like the rest of the world, it is enforced by the traffic department. No insurance, no license gets issued. Simple as that.

Then we can just hope the traffic cops actually do their job and impound all the unlicensed and unroadworthy vehicles.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
and who will enforce it? were already a lawless and broke society where if somebody gets hurt, if you call the ambulance,
first question they ask is do they have medical aid and funds in it.
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Dont they ask that because we dont have compulsory 3rd party insurance at the moment?
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
and who will enforce it? were already a lawless and broke society where if somebody gets hurt, if you call the ambulance,
first question they ask is do they have medical aid and funds in it.
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You can't register your vehicle each year unless you've got the insurance.

Enforcement is same as driving without a driving license or an unregistered vehicle.
 
wingnut771 said:
Dont they ask that because we dont have compulsory 3rd party insurance at the moment?
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no they ask us because that determines if you get help in an emergency from a Goverment ambulance that measured in years,
vs a private one that arrives in 10 min

thats all that will happen here, if you get into an accident, what will the aftermath be like, will there be help or will there be a bunch of thugs taking everything off you.
 
porchrat said:
You can't register your vehicle each year unless you've got the insurance.

Enforcement is same as driving without a driving license or an unregistered vehicle.
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people already drive with expired licence discs, and vehicles held together with bailing wire and duct tape,
nobody bats an eyelid, just a normal part of driving around, seeing the latest S class and a taxi with cardboard brake pads

enforcement is already an issue, adding more laws and increasing taxes just makes people want to break the law more.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
people already drive with expired licence discs, and vehicles held together with bailing wire and duct tape,
nobody bats an eyelid, just a normal part of driving around, seeing the latest S class and a taxi with cardboard brake pads

enforcement is already an issue, adding more laws and increasing taxes just makes people want to break the law more.
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We're talking about less taxes here. Fuel becomes cheaper because the RAF portion falls away.

I'm already running insurance, because I'm not a lunatic. Why must I pay for some other idiot on top of my insurance? Worse is, I pay my fuel tax, it gets stolen, then I have to either see an increase in the tax or my taxes must now fund the bailout. The current system doesn't work. Nuke the RAF from orbit.

Normally I'm of the opinion "the current laws cover it"... but in this situation they don't. The current system doesn't work at all. Replace it.
 
I remember many many moons ago when Raymond Ackerman from Pnp started selling petrol at a discounted price at filling stations they owned. The government was up in arms and threatened to arrest him. He brought court case after court case but lost due to the strict fuel price regulations.
 
SlowInternet said:
I remember many many moons ago when Raymond Ackerman from Pnp started selling petrol at a discounted price at filling stations they owned. The government was up in arms and threatened to arrest him. He brought court case after court case but lost due to the strict fuel price regulations.
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iirc, you used to get a free tank of petrol if you bought a full trolley of groceries.
 
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