#publicspending — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #publicspending, aggregated by home.social.
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North Macedonia Govt Finally Reveals Independence Day Celebrations’ Cost https://www.byteseu.com/2356814/ #BalkanMediaWatch #NorthMacedonia #PublicSpending #Transparency
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"…the #dogmas of Panglossian neoliberalism…ignore the significant Cold War–era #publicspending, much of it military, that created #SiliconValley. ARPANET, GPS, the integrated circuit, and the computer mouse all stem from government funding, not free markets. But the damage doesn’t stop with bad history. Politically, this ideology often results in paralysis, hindering the search for local, experimental, and democratic alternatives to the marketdriven paradigm that dominates our technology stack."
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the #budget: plans to placate backbench critics, not meet the nation’s needs
Raising #taxes and cutting #PublicSpending won’t generate the #investment to lift #LivingStandards and #productivity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/06/the-guardian-view-on-the-budget-plans-to-placate-backbench-critics-not-meet-the-nations-needs
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCynicism #TorySelfServing
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#Hunt ‘will create implausible #austerity with #PostElection #PublicSpending cuts’
Thinktank attacks chancellor’s giveaways as #OBR warns of ‘challenges’ for #councils and services
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/22/jeremy-hunt-austerity-public-spending-cuts-obr-resolution-foundation