So as we end the first week of this new government, or perhaps to be more accurate the first day given they only got sworn in yesterday.
The outrage over their first move, the petrol tax, is a good indication of what we are in for over the next three years.
According to the Herald, some people are going to leave Auckland because of the tax. No, they are not. If you leave Auckland, you were leaving anyway. No one packs up, drags their kids out of school, puts the house on the market, and upends their life because of a petrol tax.
Equally, all those who argue they're going to drive to the borders and get cheap fuel are making it up as well. No one drives 50km and burns gas to save pocket change.
But as nutty as all of that is, the real problem here is the fundamental flaw in the economics that is driving it.