DA roasted for ditching petrol levy report

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. The Western Cape government has ditched its plans to impose a fuel levy in addition to the existing national fuel levy, claiming that it's unsustainable and will further chew into the income of consumers.

Despite commissioning and paying for a report on a petrol levy, provincial Treasury jettisoned the proposal without receiving a report from the Stellenbosch University, which conducted the research.

Finance MEC Ivan Meyer announced last week during his Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement that the provincial government had ditched the proposed fuel levy. The decision has left opposition parties fuming.

Meyer’s spokesperson Daniel Johnson confirmed they had not received the report from the researchers.
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More at : https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/news/da-roasted-for-ditching-petrol-levy-report-18344099
 
They paid for a report into a stupid idea and ditched it half way. This sounds like ruling party genius at its best
 
Why don't the DA just make certain people pay the petrol levy? They can even make people pay different levies based on some arbitrary factor?
 
ambroseg1 said:
They paid for a report into a stupid idea and ditched it half way. This sounds like ruling party genius at its best
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Makes more sense to me to abandon a project half way knowing it won’t come to anything than to see it through at even more expense.

Seems like a good example of cutting your losses.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Makes more sense to me to abandon a project half way knowing it won’t come to anything than to see it through at even more expense.

Seems like a good example of cutting your losses.
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Agree here. I can see why opposition parties would also want to make hay of this - it robs them of the material they need to crucify the DA. This observation is not in support of the DA, rather and acknowledgement of the bunch of *** all politicians are and the current politics.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Makes more sense to me to abandon a project half way knowing it won’t come to anything than to see it through at even more expense.

Seems like a good example of cutting your losses.
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This is not a "project". This was an asinine idea from the get go driven by a greedy money hungry organization. This was fruitless and wasteful expenditure at its best.
 
ambroseg1 said:
This is not a "project". This was an asinine idea from the get go driven by a greedy money hungry organization. This was fruitless and wasteful expenditure at its best.
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Anything managed by multiple people from different specialist areas is a project in my view.

Any project also starts as an idea. Sometimes those ideas don’t go anywhere or come to fruition but they still started as a project.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Anything managed by multiple people from different specialist areas is a project in my view.

Any project also starts as an idea. Sometimes those ideas don’t go anywhere or come to fruition but they still started as a project.
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You are clutching at straws. This idea was ****. Everybody knew it was **** before a paid for investigation would eventually come to the same conclusion. This idea was E-toll caliber. Are you defending it because DA fanboi?
 
ambroseg1 said:
You are clutching at straws. This idea was ****. Everybody knew it was **** before a paid for investigation would eventually come to the same conclusion. This idea was E-toll caliber. Are you defending it because DA fanboi?
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Not at all.

Many ideas are kak and have millions of rands spent on them to come to the conclusion they were kak. More so in the private sector even.

The clever part for the DA here is **** canning it after someone external agreed it was kak.

The ANC as per your e-toll example just soldier on and do whatever until death do them part regardless how many people say it’s a bad idea.

Not a DA fan boy at all, but in the bigger picture they have the most successes on their side.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Not at all.

Many ideas are kak and have millions of rands spent on them to come to the conclusion they were kak. More so in the private sector even.

The clever part for the DA here is **** canning it after someone external agreed it was kak.

The ANC as per your e-toll example just soldier on and do whatever until death do them part regardless how many people say it’s a bad idea.

Not a DA fan boy at all, but in the bigger picture they have the most successes on their side.
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You are better than this. The Anc would've done worse is really bottom of the barrel debating. Sorry man. I call it like I see it. A special petrol levy on for the western cape? Really? Two minutes of critical thinking from even the lowest iq eff member would've come to the conclusion the idea is asinine in the extreme.
 
ambroseg1 said:
You are better than this. The Anc would've done worse is really bottom of the barrel debating. Sorry man. I call it like I see it. A special petrol levy on for the western cape? Really? Two minutes of critical thinking from even the lowest iq eff member would've come to the conclusion the idea is asinine in the extreme.
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How asinine? Quite often the argument has been that the levy increases should currently have been ring fenced to Gauteng? Not saying the idea is right but many projects fail. Best to fail in design vs implementation, any IT person will tell you that and most likely have experienced a wide spectrum of such. Was it a good idea? Personally I think not but if it wasn't discussed or the more modern term, workshopped, we'd have bigger problems.
 
The Western Cape government has ditched its plans to impose a fuel levy in addition to the existing national fuel levy.
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Why was this idea even ever tabled?

The DA is becoming a dangerous party, just like the ANC. Like they say, be careful what you ask for, you may just get it.
 
Lew Skannen said:
Why was this idea even ever tabled?

The DA is becoming a dangerous party, just like the ANC. Like they say, be careful what you ask for, you may just get it.
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No road upgrades for you... or only tolls roads... because user pays, we don't want to pay for your roads in WC with our Gauteng taxes.
 
Can someone ELI5 what exactly the opposition parties were actually objecting to.

DA has a momentary brainfart and decides against implementing yet another tax on beleaguered WC residents who are asked to pay endlessly needless 'extra' tariffs here, there and everywhere and opposition parties object? To what????
 
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