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While eliminating inefficient spending, especially inefficient tax subsidies, can generate some of these funds, more tax revenues may be needed.

Senior government officials take their cut of opium revenues or bribes in return for keeping quiet.

The EU Budget’s Outsize Political RoleBRUSSELS – The European Commission is now in the process of formulating the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), a medium-term budget framework that fixes the European Union’s revenues and expenditures, including how much should be allocated annually to each objective and each country.

In the run-up to its debt crisis in 2010, the government’s primary budget deficit (the amount by which government expenditure on goods and services exceeds revenues, excluding interest payments on its debt) was equivalent to an astonishing 10% of national income.

As the Nordic model shows, high employment is good for the economy because it ensures adequate tax revenues to finance high levels of social investment, which creates a virtuous cycle.

This would bolster bank credit and stimulate demand, employment, GDP, and tax revenues.

With the decline in income, tax revenues decline, and, if the country has any kind of social safety net, expenditures increase.

For the first time in decades, the Greek government has been able to pay for its expenditure with its own revenues.

Higher exports would not only have yielded directly higher revenues; they would have had a multiplier effect on the domestic economy as well, thereby increasing consumption tax revenues.

That might be true, but stronger domestic demand would lead to higher imports, which would need to be paid for with higher export revenues, because the country cannot afford to accumulate more foreign debt.

So what happened to the additional revenues derived from the commodity boom of recent years?

In addition to reducing debt, Chile used its additional revenues to increase the resources of two fiscal funds: when the recession began, there were more than $22 billion in assets in both funds.

Beyond improving public accounts, a large part of the revenues from high commodity prices were used to increase public spending, although this proportion varied from country to country.

In short, Latin American countries have used their additional export revenues to pay down debt and increase social spending.

As long as this combination of factors lasts, the governments of Latin America can maintain fiscal discipline, despite higher spending, as rapid growth translates into greater revenues.

Arab governments were able to sustain inefficient economies for decades because they were propped up by oil revenues.

Because the governments of oil-producing countries used revenues to provide for most of their people’s needs – including jobs, services, and favors – these governments fostered a culture of dependency, rather than encouraging self-reliance and entrepreneurship to expand the private sector.

What’s more, because they did not need to tax their citizens to generate revenues, people had little recourse to challenge authoritarianism.

At $17.8 billion, the stock of COFINA bonds (which are backed by future sales-tax revenues) accounts for more than one-third of the total debt in the new fiscal plan.

Russia will both derive large revenues from oil for many decades and can also play the role of an "energy stabilizer" that will be important for maintaining world peace.

As the two sides collide, the country suffers: the outcome of the water war has meant that the poor still use the same dirty and expensive water, while the result of the gas war could mean that we remain without new export revenues.

For decades, Qaddafi had behaved as if he were, as his propagandists proclaimed him, “King among African Kings,” using his country’s abundant oil revenues to provide aid to his neighbors.

In its early years, the Reagan administration forecast 5% income growth (twice the long-run average), in order to imply in its projections a boost to revenues big enough to make up for its many tax cuts.

He cannot find enough spending to cut (the magic asterisk has disappeared up the conjurer’s sleeve); the acceleration in GDP is nowhere to be seen (the rosy scenario having vanished); and tax revenues have not grown (no rabbit in the Laffer hat).

With foreign infusions of cash easing the need for tax revenues, politicians are likely to spend more time courting donors than caring for their constituents.

The implication is that tax collections have been so badly hit by the economic chaos since January’s election that government revenues are no longer sufficient to cover day-to-day costs.

With construction activity and investment spending grinding to a halt, sharp recessions – which cause tax revenues to fall, even as surging unemployment demands increased social spending – are unavoidable.

When output crumbled due to a profound banking and financial crisis (linked to the collapse of the gold standard), tax revenues plummeted in the US and Europe, and conservative governments tried to cut budget spending to limit budget deficits.

This deepened the recession in 2000 and 2001 and led to a rising budget deficit because of declining tax revenues.

Argentina's Government of the time (under President de la Rua) and the IMF tried the Depression-era false "cure" of budget cuts, but there was no way that austerity could keep up with falling tax revenues.

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