Our View: Government’s random spending prioritises popularity over policy

The way in which the government spends the taxpayer’s money is very difficult to understand. It is rather haphazard, without any economic or social rationale, just spending it for the sake of building up its flagging popularity with different sections of the population. The spending, which is always heavily publicised by the government, often by the president personally announcing it, is random and not part of any overall policy.

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