road tax

[ado089]

Looks like they're taking a real close look at our road tax exemption for farm fuel here in sask. I wonder if they feel the same about the exemption for rails and av gas?

[bucket]

Force people to use the roads by closing Raymore and Hodgenville then tax the shot out of farmers because they can't afford to fix highways.

Most railways go 60 years with minimum repairs.

Who can't see this coming.


And Bradley John wall ..... let call him bj for short ..... will disguise it under transformational change.

[farmaholic]

QUOTE:

Game of "Pass the Buck"

It has been a game in the grain industry forever.

---posted by wmoebis in the "Raymore Elevator" thread.


And it will be passed again... to those with the least ability to recoup it!

[Daylate]

I'm sure our farm is no different than yours. Less than 10% of diesel gets used on a road. Why we would pay that tax is completely beyond me.

[wmoebis]

7 or 8 years ago I was told already by the farm fuel office that they were looking at it.

[food4u]

Tell me why the railways have to $.15/l road tax on diesel that the locomotive burn.We all know who ends up footing that bill.

[food4u]

sorry about the double post

[sumdumguy]

I wonder how much the highway repair costs have gone up since wooden elevators were removed.

[Rareearth]

Increase 3x the rail fuel tax to renew rail car fleet, fund and increase producers car loading sites.
With new cars, and lots of them dedicated to grains ( for food safety reasons😀) only excuse railways could use is engines, weather, staffing, etc

The cars should be owned by provincial govt., call it the Heritage grain Corp., everything farmers funded in the past has been squandered (no value to growers anyway).

[blackpowder]

The taxpayers shouldnt own any cars.
Evidence the condition of private vs public cars.

What are plans for off road diesel for mining forestry and oil?

[fjlip]

Maybe TOLLS on highways to the terminals? So much a tonne per mile hauled. Maybe the highways should be private owned by the grain corps? Real costs would soon be apparent not buried in Prov budgets.

[wmoebis]

Can anyone explain Rr loading insentives and loading penilties for not loading in time frame.

Used to be paid back to farmers as trucking insentive to jelp offset distance to elev.

[ado089]

The rr don't pay fuel tax at least not in sask. A friend of mine was a conductor for CP. He said they wouldn't fill in sask, always had enough on board to make it out of province.

[macdon02]

Govt got drunk on $147 oil. Pensions need 8% return = Tax the shit out of everyone. Brad might listen but he's no different then the rest. Is like grain farmers with $14 canola...... I'll take 2 of all of them and I'm getting Jethro to drive and taking care of him forever cuz we drink beer together. What was the road tax original purpose?