I’ll accept that we’re all going to pay for Auckland roads if they’ll accept that we all need to pay towards the off-farm costs for the development of irrigation.
It’s all infrastructure which has a national benefit.
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“It’s all infrastructure which has a national benefit.”
And all that benefit is internalised in the prices received and given by people in the relative areas – I wish they would just let regional councils fund regional projects. There is no “positive externality” for the rest of the country here.
I’ll be happy to pay for Auckland roads as long as they put some seal on ours before they start on Auckland’s… I’m sure they will do that straight after your irrigation (*hands round the Tuis*)
Otepoti laughs out loud and accepts a Tui!
HP – most Aucklanders would not know what irrigation was or why it was needed. It rains nearly every day there.
MattN – I see a very big opportunity to reinstate Government and Local Authority fund raising targeted to specific infrastructure projects. Roading lends itself to this because tolls will provide for interest payments and eventual maturity.
Touche!