Christopher Luxon loves localism – until locals have the wrong opinions
The Spinoff Daily, Tuesday June 18
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“‘Central government shouldn’t be running roughshod over local communities,’ Luxon said in 2021. Now that he is prime minister, he can finally put a stop to all that roughshodding. There is one slight problem. Local communities keep having the wrong opinions.
Auckland Council, the elected representatives of the largest local community in New Zealand, wanted a regional fuel tax to help it fund local transport infrastructure. Unfortunately, their opinion was wrong. That kind of localism makes car drivers mad, so the government had to get rid of it.”
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