A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
693 million Ft a year for medals and ceremonies — held flat.
The state-honours system is a bounded ceremonial function every republic maintains, but there is no case for growing it. Freezing the allocation lets real-terms erosion do the disciplining over a decade.
Roughly 170 Ft per taxpayer per year — 693.1 millió Ft total, funding the production and ceremony of state decorations, not cash stipends.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: the medals, orders, and ceremonies through which the Republic recognises exceptional service. The unseen: the wage-earner whose tax funds a line that, left to grow with inflation, would expand a ceremonial budget beyond what any efficiency argument justifies.
Ellenvetés
"State honours recognise genuine achievement — this is a small, harmless line."
Válasz
Agreed it is small and the function is legitimate — which is precisely why a nominal freeze costs nothing in ceremony while removing the automatic budget growth that compounds over a decade. Holding the allocation flat at 693.1 millió Ft lets inflation quietly trim the real value by roughly 20% over ten years without abolishing a single decoration.
Share if you think even ceremonial budgets should earn their growth rather than receive it automatically.
Az elemző értékelése
Állami kitüntetések
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
This line funds the production and conferral costs of the state-honours system — the medals, orders, and decorations conferred in the name of the Republic. The Fundamental Law grants the head of state the power to confer state honours; that grant is a permission, not a funding mandate, and so the constitutional standing of the office does not by itself carry this line to Keep. The honours system is a long-standing, bounded ceremonial function of a kind every European republic and monarchy maintains; it is neither a rights-protection function nor a concentrated rent. It is closest to a bounded, self-limiting ceremonial line: the case for outright abolition is weak, the case for expansion is absent, and the administrative cost of eliminating a 693.1 millió Ft ceremonial line would not be repaid by the saving. A nominal freeze holds the allocation flat and lets typical inflation erode its real share by roughly 20-25% over a decade — a quiet, low-cost discipline on a line that does not warrant growth.
Átállási mechanizmus
Hold the allocation at 693.1 millió Ft in nominal terms across the medium term; do not index to inflation. Real erosion at ~2.5% average inflation reduces the real value by approximately 173 millió Ft over ten years.
Érintett csoportok
Recipients of state honours (no cash transfer is at stake — the line funds production and ceremony, not stipends); the craftspeople and suppliers who produce the decorations.
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