The ACTTPOA urges the ACT Government, the ACT Labor Party and ACT Greens to stop lying and misleading the Canberran public
“Taxi Plate owners have already received their investment back via lease fees.”
If you bought a house and your received rent equivalent to the purchase price over many years and then had your house forceably revalued at $20,000 would you feel you got your money back? What nonsense.
“We are offering financial counselling for Plate Owners”
What is the use of having shoulder to cry on when the ACT Government has been negligent, failed in their duty of care and stolen $200,000 from peoples retirement.
"We are lowering prices for the ACT community”.
You already do and can continue to regulate prices..You already have and use this power. Why flood the market with more cabs that you own and why directly lower lease rates from $20,000 to $5,000.
“With more taxi’s and less work prices are bound to go up to allow taxi drivers to make a living”
There is no evidence in the last 3 years of prices dropping in taxi’s anyway, so your policies have failed either way you look at it.
“Taxi Plate Owners have benefited from a regulatory regime”
Well it was on this basis that the ACT Government sourced investment and facilitated the market for over 80 years. If you want to change that you need to return the invested funds.
Damage to lease fees which retirees can live off
As plate owners have to compete with the government, and receive closer to $4000 to survive in the market.