Labour Rips Motorists Off - Again
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today accused the Labour Government of forcing motorists to pay for its
ideological ACC scheme, in the wake of reports that petrol tax is due to increase by another three cents per litre by
July 1.
"In an ACC state monopoly, costs just continue to rise. We know that in the short period of the ACC Employer Scheme
being made open to competition, substantial savings were made. There is every reason to expect that savings in the
motorist account would result in similar savings.
"The Government calls the increase a way to cover rising health costs for road accident victims. Labour party polling
shows this is the most acceptable excuse - yet these costs are not rising significantly.
"Not only is this ACC levy increase totally unnecessary but, if ACC were open to competition, the levy would be going
down, rather than up," Mr Prebble said.