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$90 million per year gift to Transurban if self-interested car drivers think they can sell their vote for $3000 under Coalition plan to buy votes for $0
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/road-tolls-to-be-capped-at-50-weekly-under-coalition-commuter-plan-20260815-p60okz.html

Fixed the headline for you.

Let's have a realistic look at this shonky election-promise:
- That $3000 isn't a discount offered by tollway companies. The money will come from the government, using taxes collected from citizens. We'll be paying for it.
- It's a handout to Transurban as a thankyou for political donations to the Liberal Party.
- If they start this scam, they won't stop after two years. It will continue forever.
- Tollway companies will jack-up their prices by the same amount as the "saving" so customers won't see any difference.

This brainfart was brought to you by the same neocon tools that gave a bunch of public highways (that had been built with money paid for by tax-payers) to rent-extracting tollway companies.