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Finland's Right-Wing Coalition Plans Fifty Years of Austerity Through National Debt Brake
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And here it begins. Just look at where Germany ended up after implementing this kind of bullshit, with crumbling infrastructure, collapsing bridges, and whatnot, and you’ll see where Finland will be in a few decades.
And then they tell us it‘s debt that will cripple future generations not… well you know literally everything else being underfunded and falling apart.
No politician ever lied, I guess…
I don’t know how Finnish law works; how would they make this happen beyond their term? Like, here in the UK there’s nothing a government could do to bind the next one that had enough votes to undo it
I was thinking about that too. Other than an international treaty, I can’t think of any mechanism that would make it actually binding. Even if you turn that plan into a law, the next administration can just rewrite the law.
I think this is more a ‘politically motivated’ headline. ‘Social Europe’ is a social democratic outlet and they want to discredit (rightfully) the now conservative government in Finland (and title fits into OP’s desired narrative). Not that I support what the government is doing in Finland, but I would generally prefer a bit less clickbait and less partisanship in general. Just my 2 cents, maybe I am wrong.
The typical way this is done is by writing it into the constitution, making it hard to remove.