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Originally posted by madamswer: ↑

"I doubt that you feel anything... just cool cold-blooded investment decisions... I let others decide, whether or not a campaign fighting an ill-conceived tax on EVs is tokenism or actually a cause worth fighting for."

Just because my position doesn't accord with your special interests, you pass public judgments on my character and my ethical motivations; yet you don't know me from Adam.

You don't know what I do with my money or which causes I support, or don't.

Unlike many people, what few virtues I believe I have, I think it poor form to broadcast them to a bunch of strangers on the internet.

But what I will say - with a high degree of certainty - is that whatever charitable donations my family makes, the recipients are inordinately more needing and deserving than supporting the ambit objectives of some western elitists who don't want to pay tax on their EVs.

Besides, where's the climate emergency conviction among the would-be EV owners?

"Managers" and "Consultants" - such as Chris and Kath, the Victorian EV drivers - who, presumably aren't exactly remunerated at minimum wage rates, should be more than happy to "pay up" if their belief in the cause is all that it is cracked up to be.

And any way, they say driving EV's makes "sound financial sense", as it is (their words, not mine):

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OK, so now you shoot the messenger.

As is typical for climate change deniers - and I am not saying you are one... apparently that would be "puerile" - instead of debating the merits of the Victorian EV tax - one levied only against EV drivers and not all vehicle drivers - you vent your spleen at the awful "managers and consultants" who want to take the case to court.

I wonder which people are allowed to fight what they perceive to be an unjust tax? Farmers and peasants only?

But you have them perfectly wedged Madam. They are too wealthy to be worthy of financial support, compared to the inordinately more deserving recipients of your charity but too poor to pay for their own legal costs. BRILLIANT!!!

Or maybe you are so well off, that you think everyone who has a high conviction on something ought to be able to fork out $120,000 for a court challenge that is for the greater good? A bit out of touch with the financial pressures that ordinary Australians might feel Madam? I am sure $120,000 would come pretty easy to you.

Your wedge is just as brilliant as the EV road tax itself, because with most people still being ICE drivers, it is a surefire electoral winner.

While I think it is a truly stupid tax (in the context of the article I posted above about how Norway's early adoption of EVs has brought EV prices down for less well-of nations around the world), any attempt by EV drivers to fight it allows them to be labelled as a bunch of "western elitists who don't want to pay tax".

As to the sentence: "It also makes pretty sound financial sense"

I do not get your point for highlighting this. If they are lucky enough to be able to charge their EVs from their own rooftop solar, they basically can run them for free. Believe it or not, some EVs are cheap enough so that if you can get your fuel essentially for free, due to their higher efficiency and lower maintenance costs, they already are cheaper over their lifetime than ICE cars. Or do you just loathe the fact that for their personal circumstances it might make sense, but not for everyone else?