"Fact" daily writes:
We will not invent a bicycle. For the formation of the state budget, first of all, appropriate revenues are needed, the main sources of which are taxes and non-tax revenues. financing.
Of course, states with large financial incomes and large populations are able to generate enormous budgets, compared to which the state budget of Armenia is quite limited, but the problem is not only the generation of the budget, but also its purposeful and targeted use.
But as surprising as it is, the RA authorities do not focus on the effective spending of budget funds, but on showing every time how important budget funds are for the state and citizens. We even encounter extreme manifestations when Pashinyan declares that no citizen spends more for his family than the state budget spends.
In the framework of another comparison, he notes that there is no family that does not benefit from the state budget funds. Of course, there is no doubt that the state budget is in proportion to the state funds intended for all citizens, and everyone benefits either from the funds in the budget or from the results of the investment of these funds.
Naturally, citizens cannot solve such large-scale issues with their individual funds, which are solved thanks to the allocations of the state budget. However, the problem is different. the authorities are trying to manipulate the society and present the opportunities provided by the state budget as a favor, that is, to "give it away".
What is Nikol Pashinyan referring to: public education, social security? It is a very dubious wording. Although Pashinyan himself states that it is a statement that needs to be verified. it is presented as a great favor, secondly, it is used as a PR tool, that is, the government is identified with the state Did the authorities bring the budget from their father's house? Isn't it formed at the expense of the taxes paid by the same citizens?
Moreover, tax payers are declared as "heroes", but it is not heroism, but everyone's civic duty. It turns out that financial means are formed in the budget at the expense of citizens' taxes, and then the authorities "face" these citizens with what kind of service the state provides. However, the state is simply obliged to provide services to its citizens.
And these services can also be from the point of view of the activities of high government officials. Yes, by the way, Pashinyan may be right when he says that "no RA citizen spends more money for his family than the state budget." refers exclusively to caps.
ARTHUR KARAPETIAN
