During the debate last night there were plenty of references to manifestos being fully costed by the Department of Finance, or whoever. Is there anywhere I can see these? I'd like to be able to compare parties by how much they would increase current expenditure, what they would spend on capital projects, what the cost of their tax cuts would be etc. I have no real sense of how much each party is planning to inflate the State but just get a feeling that they are all going to splurge roughly the same amount with marginally different ways of accumulating said splurge.
Who can I vote for that will increase spending the least and keep the tax base as broad as possible?
*Edit: OK, so the manifestos of the 3 big parties have costings at the end of them so this information is there. My bad! It's not presented in the same manner across the parties so I can't really compare them without more leg work than I'm willing to put in, but I can get a sense of each party's profligacy from these.
Who can I vote for that will increase spending the least and keep the tax base as broad as possible?
*Edit: OK, so the manifestos of the 3 big parties have costings at the end of them so this information is there. My bad! It's not presented in the same manner across the parties so I can't really compare them without more leg work than I'm willing to put in, but I can get a sense of each party's profligacy from these.
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