Editorial: Liberia’s Budget Shows Twisted Priorities

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Liberia has introduced its largest budget to date, but the priorities are described as twisted. The spending plan allocates more funds for lawmakers' fuel than for medicines for the nation. Retired politicians are also receiving more financial support than the poor. These allocations suggest the budget is upside down.

More for lawmakers’ fuel than for the nation’s medicines. More for retired politicians than for the poor. Liberia’s biggest-ever budget has its priorities upside down. LIBERIA HAS NEVER…

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