Interesting response/letter from Nick Smith to alternative proposals for ACC

**yachtie10** · 29th June 2010, 17:41

Here's a crazy off the cuff idea, why doesn't BRONZ use some of their funds to place and advertisement in the Dominon publicly (and nicely without rhetoric and hype) asking Nick Smith why ACC needs to collect more money when so many financial analysts are telling us ACC is not broke?

good post

This is the sort of thing I was referring to the only problem i see
Will any of the credible media follow it up and if so will they just accept the stock answers we have been getting

**FastBikeGear** · 29th June 2010, 17:47

Originally Posted by yachtie10

good post

This is the sort of thing I was referring to the only problem i see
Will any of the credible media follow it up and if so will they just accept the stock answers we have been getting

The question is not whether the media follow it up or whether they accept the stock answers. The question is whether New Zealanders do.
If Nick doesn't respond we win.
If he does respond we win.
With a bit of cunning the question can be asked in a such a way that stops/forbids Nick using ACC funds to pay for his answer.

**Bald Eagle** · 29th July 2010, 15:29

Finally received today this response from the minister to my letter of 10th December 2009.

Interesting comment

"The levy setting process is a highly specialised technical area, and influenced by factors not in published data, which is only part of the picture. "

included therein.

**mashman** · 29th July 2010, 15:41

Originally Posted by Bald Eagle

Finally received today this response from the minister to my letter of 10th December 2009.

Interesting comment

"The levy setting process is a highly specialised technical area, and influenced by factors not in published data, which is only part of the picture. "

included therein.

So they fit the data to the levies they want to charge then... is that what he's saying