That is a cynical comment.
Have a read of the "Smaller Government Bill" to reduce the number of MPs from 120 to 100 and reduce the size of the executive from 31 to 20. ACT proposed this.
Reducing the size of the public service and the size of parliament has been a key ACT policy since inception.
You may remember the referendum (non binding) in 1999 to reduce the number of MPs to 99 had 81.5 percent in favour and 18.5 against... that is an overwhelmingly mandate for this to be implemented but other than NZ First and ACT all the other parties absolutely ignored this referendum.
You can call plenty of parties "troughers" but ACT is certainly not one of them.