Cool - so for $20 a week all I needed to do was fire 5,000 public servants, get rid of free prescriptions and subsidised public transport, disestablish the Māori Health Authority, and borrow a couple of billion dollars a year more.
Alternatively for $20 a week I could have had all of those things.
Wait. I'm filtering the budget stuff through a bsky kikorangi filter. Are you telling me that all of this is going to amount to less than my weekly sushi spend?
That last paragraph is so vital. Tax is an incredibly cheap way of providing a huge variety of services because of the sheer scalability of doing it at a nation-wide level.