Bikoi
I went along to the Bikoi today and talked to a couple of people. I asked them if they felt they were subsidising the drunks, the risky riders, and the incompetent drivers. They both felt it was unfair for them to have to pay for other peoples' mistakes in riding when they didn't cause a burden on ACC.
So I asked them if they thought paying based on individual risk would be a better system. One agreed and knew exactly what I meant, the other (who I discovered worked for the Rail and Maritime Union) said it was a social cost, so should be born by all society. He tried to argue he subsidised me in my Rugby playing days, tp which I said I would be happy to releive him of that burden.
When Phil Goff spoke, he immediately said that ACC was never intended to be a user pays system.
Herein lies the problem - just who is going to pay for ACC costs if users are not. Thanks to the largess of the previous Government, there is no money left from general taxation to pay for it. Labour wouldn't cut any other services, and the money has to come from somewhere.
Where Phil?
So I asked them if they thought paying based on individual risk would be a better system. One agreed and knew exactly what I meant, the other (who I discovered worked for the Rail and Maritime Union) said it was a social cost, so should be born by all society. He tried to argue he subsidised me in my Rugby playing days, tp which I said I would be happy to releive him of that burden.
When Phil Goff spoke, he immediately said that ACC was never intended to be a user pays system.
Herein lies the problem - just who is going to pay for ACC costs if users are not. Thanks to the largess of the previous Government, there is no money left from general taxation to pay for it. Labour wouldn't cut any other services, and the money has to come from somewhere.
Where Phil?
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9:59 PM
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