Finnish goverment becomes the highest spending in the world
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Finnish goverment becomes the highest spending in the world
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Is there an official source where we can see what’s being spent and on what ?
Spend on themselves
Spending more than Ukraine
Well, with slow growth, high unemployment, aging demographics, and security pressures, public spending is doing the heavy lifting while the private sector struggles. The real question is what exactly they’re spending it on.
And people still fall for the “right wing parties reduce the deficit” lie.
Step 1 create massive unemploymemt
Step 2 act like increased spending is not related to mass unemployment
Step 3 ?
Step 4 win elections
Highest in the world so far…wait until SDP wins the next election and starts another borrowing spree.
The IMF has a bit different list but the ones above are kiribati, marshall islands, ukraine and dominica so yeah saying Finland is #1 can be said to be correct.
And at the same time people want even more government spending!
Source: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/FRA/JPN/GBR/SWE/ESP/ITA/ZAF/IND
Ironic
Finland hasnt have good goverment in many years.
Funny. Norwegian conservatives are always on about how much more efficient the Finnish public sector is.
What is the source for this, though?
Spending here is calculated in % of gross domestic product (GDP). Due to the current economic crisis, the GDP went down. Even with the amount of spendings staying the same, the spending in % GDP is going up rapidly.
We are the only true socialist coutnry.
Thank you Katainen gov where Urpilainen SDP was the finance minister. it was the breaking point. Then soon after Marin gov poured fuel to the garbage fire and here we are. Thank you socialists. We need more gap to the second highest!
Source for this particular list, I can’t find it anywhere
It’s in relation to GDP.
If our GDP would have grown the narrative would change even with the same nominal spending figures.
Of course the current government cutting taxes for highest earners is not an economy boosting measure, similarly to cutting benefits for the poor (who spend all their money back into the economy)
Kokoomus when SDP is in government: “YOU SPEND TOO MUCH! SPEND LESS!”
Kokoomus when in government: “Lol, let’s break some records, and direct the spending to private businesses and make them poors even poorer.”
I find funny that unemployment is blamed to foreigners and immigrants and now there is an over emphasis to make sure immigrants that are working cannot stay in the country paying taxes ( for example forced to leave after 3 months of being unemployed) . Society wont change and people wont suddenly start to have more kids so the only path for finland is to open doors to educated immigrants to increase the population of young tax paying citizens and make it attractive for them ( i think taking refugees even though honourable is a bad idea long term for economy). Right now immigrants are treated like the pest and causes of all evil when in reality is about foreigner policy and who you take in, so educated expats are treated the same as refugees or asylum seekers. And now I will be downvoted to dead because of course how you dare to give your opinion you filthy brown garbage.
It’s the size of private sector that is the real problem. The country can’t live off public spending, we need actual productive work, research, investments…
What happened to the concept of having a real economy and trade?