government spending

We paid for a bridge connecting two puddles and for a sociological survey about potholes on the roads. What is happening to my money – this is the question that every Bulgarian taxpayer should ask himself after leafing through the pages of the new “Black Book of Government Waste in Bulgaria”. What is happening …

"Economic growth" has become one of the most overused mantras these days and serves as a justification for almost every inefficient government spending, government intervention in market relations, or favoritism for businesses close to power. All parties — except one — comment at length in their programs on the recipes for how …

We received this text from our reader, who asked to remain anonymous. The important question he asks is - how is taxpayer money spent in such disasters? Watching a TV report this week about the landslide of rocks and earth on the Asenovgrad - Smolyan road, I was definitely provoked by the statement ...

Gregory Brasiger Over the past 80 years, governments have been expected to provide more and more social services. This means ever-increasing costs to taxpayers, both ours and future generations yet to be born. Since governments have been almost constantly running in the red, they have become like cocaine addicts desperately looking for their next …