A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
A central matching grant to steer municipal library spending — because the centre knows better.
300 million Ft rewards municipalities for spending their own money on library collection development: a central inducement designed to substitute the allocator's preference for what local electorates would choose to prioritise.
About 75 Ft per taxpayer per year — 300 million Ft total — as a central matching incentive designed to override what a municipality's own electorate would choose to spend on library collections.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: libraries that receive a central top-up for buying new books and materials. The unseen: the local decision that the matching grant is designed to override — if the municipality's electorate values collection development, the municipality can fund it; the central inducement exists to push municipalities toward spending the allocator has decided to favour.
Ellenvetés
"The matching mechanism is small and encourages good library investment — surely this is exactly the kind of targeted support that works."
Válasz
If a municipality's electorate values library collection development, the municipality funds it from its own budget without a central inducement. The inducement exists to move municipal spending toward the allocator's preference regardless of local demand. The principle scales regardless of the amount: a central matching grant that substitutes the allocator's judgement for the local one is the same mechanism at 300 million as at 3 billion.
Share if you think municipalities should decide their own library priorities, without central matching incentives.
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Indoklás
A small `érdekeltségnövelő` (interest-increasing) grant: a matching-style central top-up that rewards municipalities for spending their own funds on library collection development. The mechanism is a central inducement designed to steer municipal spending toward an activity the central allocator has decided to favour. If a municipality's electorate values library collection development, the municipality can fund it from its own budget; if it does not, a small central inducement to do so anyway is precisely the substitution of the allocator's preference for the local one. The line is small and the classification follows the principle, not the size: phase out the central inducement over three years, leaving collection-development decisions to municipalities and their electorates.
Átállási mechanizmus
Three-year linear wind-down of the matching top-up. Municipalities that value library collection development continue to fund it from their own budgets.
Érintett csoportok
Municipal libraries; municipalities that currently draw the matching top-up.
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