...Most New Zealanders would agree...

Where you see "..." Insert your favourite coalition politician (take your pick, they are all saying it!) response that despite hard or, let's face it, any evidence... "Most New Zealanders would agree that..."

Exemplar 'Most New Zealanders would agree that'...Free school lunches for children should be abolished to stop wasting taxpayer money...

...More incarceration creates a safer country because prisons work and are cost-effective justice responses...especially private ones...

... greater access to firearms, especially semi-automatics, is a right and keeps us all safer...

...Increasing overcrowded housing is a solution to the New Zealand emergency housing crisis... interest deductions for landlords with rental properties will be passed on to benefit tenants...

...One system of user-pays health is fairer and serves us all...everyone can afford a prescription surcharge...and there is no racism in our Health system

...Increasing tax revenue through continued tobacco sales and repealing smoke-free legislation has no downstream health, harm or productivity costs...

...work on previously approved infrastructure projects to improve public transport and school properties is a waste of taxpayer money and does not benefit the public (or at least our voters), students, or teachers.

...Increasing tax revenue by targeting the outsourcing of more speed cameras will enable the government to give tax breaks to those who are least likely to need them...

...cracking down on gangs and increasing police powers doesn't run the risk of Aotearoa/NZ becoming a Police State, grassroots militarisation and/or increasing the risk and danger of injury or death of citizens ...

...policies to reduce fuel tax and the uptake of electric vehicles will not reduce climate emissions...

...removing funding for section 27 reports and access to legal aid has no implications for people's access to justice...

...indigenous rights, children's rights, women's rights, refugee and migrant rights, Te Tiriti rights and human rights are overrated for those who have yet to enjoy them ... we have no international obligations to these...we should create a constitution in our coalition image...

...more poverty (education, housing, heating, food, health, child, family, transport etc) and social inequity is an unfortunate and inevitable by-product of the need to grow wealth and resources for those with immense power and resources ...

...increased privatisation works because our businesses, our mates and their companies get richer, and it has a 'trickle-down' effect...

...nobody deserves a living wage or fair pay... the working poor are simply a commodity to support economic growth...

...the government has the right, as demonstrated by the last election result (because we all wanted this coalition!), to fast track and exponentially increase the raping and pillaging of all our natural resources (fish, deep sea mining, water, land, people, conservation estates etc) until the social and ecological fabric of all that is good and just in Aotearoa is dust and there is nothing left for our future generations...

...more fast-tracked, centralised and operational power for Ministers and less power and resources for the reserve bank, parliament, local government, the public service, and less democracy is not a dictatorship...

PS. This is not bought to you by the Atlas Network, Hobsons Pledge, the Taxpayers Union, The New Zealand Initiative or any New Zealand or International white supremacist group or any particular "Cancer (new plural) of Dictators"