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# Our ‘well-being’ depends on the fiscal components of the Budget
- URL: https://goodoil.news/our-well-being-depends-on-the-fiscal-components-of-the-budget/
- Published: 2019-06-01T23:30:34.000Z
- Updated: 2019-06-01T10:31:41.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

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The definition of well-being is the state of being comfortable, healthy or happy. The definition of a budget is an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time. Looking at both definitions one could deduce that the successful outcome of well-being depends very much on the fiscal components in the Budget.

This is precisely where the Left get themselves into trouble. On two fronts.  
**First, they prioritise well-being ahead of fiscal responsibility.**   
Second, as is the habit with the Left, they dictate what they think is good for one’s well-being rather than listening to what the people say they need for their well-being.

Take a look at the Budget. No one can argue with the money given to mental health. Also funding for schools and hospitals is necessary. In reality, that is where the well-being part of the Budget started and finished. Apart from the $300 million fund to allow businesses to grow there is virtually nothing to incentivise business and therefore an increase in productivity which in turn adds to people’s well-being.

**Encouraging people to stay on welfare is totally counterproductive.** Putting $1 billion into Kiwirail is akin to funding a lost cause. It simply will not get a large number of trucks off the road. They will still be required to get goods to the rail and to the destination at the other end.

I doubt $150 per child will be sufficient to prevent schools from asking for voluntary funding. $81 million for Whanau Ora is questionable in that no matter how much money is thrown at Maori we never seem to see a significant turnaround in Maori statistics. This simply proves that a lot of well-being, in fact, comes from self-reliance.

As for being a brand new transformational concept that the world should sit up and take notice of it was a giant failure. Practically a joke. What was in it anyone on *Whaleoil* could have thought up in five minutes. Given another five minutes we could have improved upon it immensely. There is precious little of that which ie really required to improve a person’s well-being. Where were the business incentives to work hard to increase productivity? Nowhere to be seen.

A Budget totally lacking in vision from a government that is incapable of having one.