Considering The Budget Speech- Final Reflections

The question one might ask is; do we think it will achieve what it is meant to achieve? And to what extent? Does it give realistic estimates? Will we find ourselves having to recover again, from a year we did not anticipate, yet we could have? And what of the excessive expenditure at the highest echelons of leadership? Should that be taken into account in considering the state of the nation’s finances? Or is that just a petty oppositional tactic as has been argued?

The Budget Speech is an important event in the national calendar as it let us us know the state of our country’s finances and economy. It is supposed to consider the previous year, as we noted in the first piece, and project into the following year, estimating, and anticipating what will incur that will need finance from the nation itself, and how to maintain the current state of the country’s finances.