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"Mr President, with only one exception, every voice we have just heard has been in favour of higher spending. You have to ask why that is? It has to do with the way incentives have been skewed in the EU process. Everybody has an incentive in spending more money: the MEPs obviously, and the other Eurocrats, they are all personal beneficiaries from it as well as believers in the project. The national governments really have no particular incentive to reduce spending. If spending is coming from Brussels in their region, they do not want to invigilate the system and reduce the amount going to recipients.
There is not really anybody whose job is to keep the budget down and that is the basic structural flaw here. It is not like a national parliament where there is a link between taxation, representation and expenditure and where the parliamentarians have to go back to their constituents, who are also their taxpayers, and explain what they have done with the money.
We expect the bouquets when we spend but not the brickbats when we tax because the taxation is done elsewhere and that is why there is this constant structural upward pressure on spending."@en1
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