So Taxinda has put the ‘tax and spend' government into first gear with the proposed petrol tax.

Will they lower the speed limit? I doubt it as that will mean less petrol used.

Can this tax and spend government guarantee they will spend the collected tax and GST on the roads and only on roading? I doubt it –it will be misappropriated like most petrol tax.

Didn't John Key introduce a nine cents a litre tax to pay for roading? Where has that gone?

The government collects enough tax on registrations only each year to build a motorway per year and still have money left over. Imagine what they could do if they spent the petrol tax on roading. We could have the best motorway systems in the world. Please stop spending road taxes on other projects and fix our roads.

A Bourne, Bethlehem.