Rego doesn't even begin to cover the cost of roads. Nearly all the cost comes from general tax revenue.
zik
joined 2 years ago
I'm glad it works for you. It doesn't for me and a lot of other people. I changed jobs because my previous job wanted us to come back in. I will never return to the office. There's no benefit to the business and all the costs of coming in are borne by me.
We bitch about all the things all the time. But we secretly love our trains and trams.
They did say he's "the Kmart version of Elon Musk" which I thought was quite funny.
A few years ago I tried to register a domain name which included the word "purple". I was told I couldn't because HP had trademarked the word "purple" so it was off the list of registerable words. I pointed out that my domain was in no way related to their purple laptops and I was told tough, no-one could for any reason register any domain which included the word "purple" because HP now owned the dictionary word "purple".
I'm still annoyed about it to this day.
It's easy to work it out yourself.
Road funding is 8.3 billion from councils per year plus 5.6 billion (federal maintenance) +15 billion (federal projects) plus whatever the states spend. Plus there are other parts of road funding that come from other budgets but it's well over 30 billion all up. The number of registered cars in Australia is 21 million. So over $1500 per car per year for road expenditure.
Rego (excluding the insurance component which doesn't go towards roads) is about $200 depending on the state. So the rest is coming from general revenue.
Note that they never claimed rego paid for all the road costs. It's just something that's commonly assumed.