I had an email today from Ashley. She asked the ACT Party, on the subject of road-user charges, "Could Labour scrap them forever?" Because the costs that her family are bearing right now, with day care, with rent, paying back her student loan, and paying for all of her family's costs meant that this small reduction in road-user charges that would benefit her family was not even a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of money that they are spending just to keep the lights on and to make sure that they have food on the table. Ashley wrote and said she lives in Auckland with her partner. He's a self-employed truckie and he pays himself only $65,000 a year because he can't afford to pay himself any more because the cost of fuel, road-user charges, and running the truck mean that's all he can afford to take out of the business. 