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Hi Friend,
I know it’s Sunday, so I’ll keep this brief.
Today marks just 120
days until advance voting opens.
That is not long. In fact, by the time “official”
election campaigns really get going, most New Zealanders will already
have made up their minds.
At the last election, around half of voters had cast
their ballot before election day.
That means the campaign is not starting in October. It
is starting now.
And those who think government can spend your money
better than you can know it.
Chris Hipkins knows it. The Greens know it. Te Pāti Māori
knows it. And the media know it too.
The narrative for this election is being written right
now: which policies are “fair”, which promises are “fully funded”,
which spending splurges are treated as “investment”, and which
warnings are dismissed as “scaremongering”.
That is why I am asking you to make a donation today to
the Taxpayers’ Union’s Election Year Taxpayers’ Fighting
Fund.
>> Donate to
the Election Year Fighting Fund <<
Because someone has to do the numbers.
Someone has to ask: what will it cost?
Someone has to expose the election bribes before they
become government policy.
And that someone is the Taxpayers’ Union.
At previous elections, we have run projects such as the
Bribe-O-Meter, costing political promises so voters
could see the real bill behind the slogans.
We have taken the Debt Clock around the
country to show, in real time, the burden being loaded onto future
taxpayers.
We led the fight against Three
Waters.
We have campaigned for Capping Council
Rates (which Labour and the Greens want to
scrap!).
We have exposed wasteful spending, challenged
bureaucratic empire-building, and forced politicians of all parties to
answer questions they would much rather avoid.
But election years are different.
The stakes are higher. The spin is thicker. And the
spending promises come faster.
Labour is already promising more “free” things —
but there is no such thing as free government
spending.
There is only spending paid for by taxpayers today,
borrowers tomorrow, or inflation when politicians lose
control.
The Greens have put forward tax plans that simply do not
add up.
And there was the One News poll is week pointing
to Chris Hipkins returning to power but reliant on the Greens and Te
Pāti Māori to pass laws and Government budgets.
That's a scary prospect .
Because a Labour/Green/Te Pāti Māori Government would not
be a moderate government.
It would mean more spending, more borrowing, more taxes,
more regulation, and more ideological policymaking — all at the
expense of households, businesses, farmers, ratepayers, and future
generations.
We cannot afford to let New Zealand sleepwalk into
that.
Please
donate today so the Taxpayers’ Union can expose the true cost before
voters start casting their ballots.
Friend, will you help fund the campaign to expose the
cost?
Your donation today will help us:
➡️ Cost the
political promises before voters go to the polls.
➡️ Expose wasteful
and reckless spending plans.
➡️ Push back against
the idea that taxpayers are an endless ATM.
➡️ Produce research,
advertising, polling, media work, and campaign material that reaches
voters before they cast their ballots.
➡️ Hold politicians
to account.
The Taxpayers’ Union has always punched above its weight.
Unlike Labour's mates in the unions, the media, and universities, the
Taxpayers' Union runs 100% on donations from New Zealanders like you
and me.
We can only do it because many thousands of New
Zealanders decide that grumbling at the television is not
enough.
They chip in. They back the work. They make the campaigns
possible.
That
is what I am asking you to do today. Please make a secure and
confidential donation to the Election Year Taxpayers’ Fighting
Fund.
Because in 120 days, voting begins.
And by then, it may be too late to change the
narrative.
Thank you
for your support,
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Peter
Williams
Financial Supporter and Former Board
Member
New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union
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P.S. Sorry
again for emailing on a Sunday. But elections are not won in the final
week. They are won in the months beforehand, when voters are still
forming their views and politicians are still trying to get away with
unfunded promises. Please
back the Taxpayers’ Union’s election campaign today.
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