Diese Art von Geld wird jedes Jahr durch Steuern eingenommen. Und das Haushaltsdefizit wird jedes Jahr immer größer. Zum Vergleich: 81,7 Milliarden Euro sind wirklich viel für ein Land mit einer Bevölkerung von gerade einmal 5,6 Millionen Menschen. Das ist mehr als viele andere EU-Länder pro Kopf haben. Wohin geht das ganze Geld?
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Von Neutral-frame
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Good question. It’s almost 20k per capita in public spending.
Army, streets, Kela, Education, Police, refugees, environment, heating, and so on…
The budgets are public here:
[https://valtionbudjetti.fi/prototyyppi/](https://valtionbudjetti.fi/prototyyppi/)
[https://budjetti.vm.fi/tae/frame_year.jsp?year=2025&lang=fi](https://budjetti.vm.fi/tae/frame_year.jsp?year=2025&lang=fi)
Healthcare is huge, by the way. 24,6 billion just for the „hyvinvointialueet and HUS“
They are running a secret government program, a circle through they can travel to planets far away. It’s very expensive.
I mean, think of all the things we take for granted that other countries don’t have: great medical, education, public transit, a reliable military, social services.
Pensions and health care costs alot plus defence spending
It’s dumped to a hole in my backyard.
pensions
Just to add nuance to this discussion, deficits aren’t inherently a bad thing. What it effectively means is the government spending/injecting more money in to the economy than pulling out through taxes.
I know the mainstream narrative is debt=bad but for a developed country, it’s not really the case – and actually the opposite as it makes us richer.
The important part is what the debt is spent on and this current right wing government with tax cuts for high incomes definitely is not using the debt productively.
You are all a bit short. It’s called pensions and social spending, one of the highest in Europe. We take from those who produce and give it to people who cannot produce.
What this investment in the people’s wellbring really pays for is social peace, and low crime rate.
Give or take the obligatory handful of idiots.
Free and high quality of education translating into insane productivity in academia, science and high tech, considering the size of the country and low population.
For perspective, at about same area, and harsher environmental conditions, Finland has 1/17 of Germany’s population, and (IMO) better quality of life.
Despite the extra burden of keeping the utilities, energy and transportation infrastructure running- which is in better shape than in most of the rest of Europe.
Life up north is simply more expensive…
The population is aging, which seems to have significantly increased healthcare and pension payments. Also, since other European countries don’t have such a long border with Russia, it’s normal that Finland’s defense spending is much more than Switzerland’s.
it seems like what’s collected from the people is being spent for the people 🙌
A significant part of it is collected from the public sector and private companies that are doing work for the public sector – in reality the actual contribution sum is a lot smaller.
A 7-day-old account is questioning if taxes are allocated correctly and planting seeds of doubt about corruption. I wonder which country usually does this kind of influence operation.
Our way too genereous welfare system (which is a welfare trap in many ways), and our poorly optimized public healthcare sector take the lion’s share from all of the expenses. Those two areas combined are nearly 50% of the budget.
This is an example case of hybrid warfare. 7 day old account posting divisive content with nothing to back their claims, nor any other meaningful contribution to discussion.
Wonder who benefits from this