NZ Initiative ‘absolutely delighted’ Seymour wants to slash ministerial line-up
A New Zealand think tank that suggested the need to downsize the country’s executive roles last year is applauding David Seymour’s suggestion to do just that.
Executive director for the New Zealand Initiative, Oliver Hartwich, says the current system has “become quite absurd” and he’s “absolutely delighted there’s a politician” who’s willing to consolidate the way governments run.
Free Market Supervillain Dr Octavious Hartwich loves David Seymour’s Thanos plan to gut the State in half because that is the same perspective the Far Right Free Market Think Tank ‘The Atlas Network’ who is aligned with NZ Initiative also holds.

The mighty George Monbiot from the Guardian laid out the Atlas Network playbook last year…
And who, in turn, are the junktanks? Many refuse to divulge who funds them, but as information has trickled out we have discovered that the Atlas Network itself and many of its members have taken money from funding networks set up by the Koch brothers and other rightwing billionaires, and from oil, coal and tobacco companiesand other life-defying interests. The junktanks are merely the intermediaries. They go into battle on behalf of their donors, in the class war waged by the rich against the poor. When a government responds to the demands of the network, it responds, in reality, to the money that funds it.
…Oil, coal, tobacco, right wing billionaires, the fucking Koch brothers, dark money influencing our political system so much so that we see the exact same agenda being rolled out here!
The Atlas Network threatened The Daily Blog late last year, and we have to be very clear that the hard right anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-renter, anti-beneficiary, anti-disabled agenda that is being blitzkrieged through in the first year under the National/ACT/NZF Government is being aided, abetted and influenced by the Hard Right International Free Market Think Tank, the Atlas Network.
The local tentacle of the Atlas Network, The NZ Initiative, want ACTs Thanos plan because the entire drive of these free market privatisation glee clubs is to amputate the State permanently…

…this is being driven under the guise of ‘cost saving’ using ‘market dynamics’, but what that garbage all misses is that the role of the state is to provide services minus the profit motive!
Government agencies aren’t supposed to make a profit, they are there to serve the people!
What the NZ Initiate and ACTs Thanos plan will do is mutilate the State so that you feel this…
…don’t allow yourselves to be conned by corporations pretesting their interests are your interests!
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Good plan ,get rid of all unelected mps which means 3 act and no NZ first Mps .Problem solved .That would get rid of a lot of the feral hate filled Mps .
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/05/04/of-course-dr-octavious-hatwick-from-hard-right-think-tank-linked-to-atlas-supports-david-thanos-symours-plan-to-half-the-state/
There used to be a story about how to give overseas tourists a real feel for a piece of land in NZAO – sell them postage stamp copies of a deed to a postage stamp size bit of property. Interesting promotion but wasn’t meant to be taken literally and applied to any land or size of NZAO that Maori or National Parks hadn’t hung on to with naked determination. Oh those naked people running around NZAO, they look half-mad but are they? Talking about chopping the state down to their usable pocket-size is not good for us naked savages who don’t want to end up like the Brazilian decimated tribe suffering genocide, or others under invasion. not forgetting Palestine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/1/hidden-genocide-death-of-indigenous-man-in-brazil-spurs-outcry 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples_in_Brazil
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/memoriam-remembering-77-indigenous-defenders-who-were-murdered-2023-latin-america
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/
Apr/25 https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657283 Firsthand Accounts from U.S. Medical Missions in Gaza
May/25https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-starving-gaza-death-and-still-world-does-nothing
Take inflation over the last 10 years. Then compare it to government spending over the same period. Anywhere in the non-Asian OECD if there are more than 5 examples where inflation outpaces government spending I would be amazed.
The Taxpayers Union don’t help themselves but at some stage the plebiscite will stop swallowing the 9% propaganda regarding taxpayer spending.
Why do you want such a big state?