A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
What does a central grant know about what your town values culturally?
22.7 billion Ft flows annually through a central formula to fund local cultural programming — a formula that substitutes the allocator's judgement for whatever residents would actually choose to attend and pay for.
About 5,600 Ft per taxpayer per year — 22.7 billion Ft total — allocated by central formula to local cultural centres and programming, regardless of what any specific community would choose for itself.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: local cultural centres and the events they host. The unseen: the signal that would tell a municipality what its residents actually value in culture — what they attend, donate to, and sponsor — replaced by a central formula that keeps institutions funded whether or not the local community would fund them voluntarily.
Ellenvetés
"Local culture would disappear without state support — communities can't fund it themselves."
Válasz
What a community genuinely values, it funds: admission, membership, local sponsorship, and — where a municipality's electorate chooses it — locally-raised and locally-accountable finance. The five-year phase-out honours staff reliance while separating the institutions a community sustains by choice from those sustained only by a formula the community never voted on.
Share if you think cultural funding should follow what communities actually choose, not what a formula prescribes.
Az elemző értékelése
A települési önkormányzatok kulturális feladatainak támogatása
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
Funds municipal cultural tasks — local cultural centres, community programming, municipal cultural institutions not separately funded under Cím 2.4. Culture is the paradigm of subjective valuation: there is no market price signal and no external aggregator that tells the allocator the optimal level or mix of community cultural programming. What a community values in culture is revealed only through what its members are willing to pay for, attend, donate to, or volunteer for. A central or municipal grant substitutes the allocator's judgement for that revealed preference. This is not a rights-protection function, not a constitutional precondition, and not a response to involuntary harm; it is discretionary allocation of resources to cultural activity by political officeholders. The honest classification is a phase-out. The protected party is the municipal cultural institutions and their staff who currently rely on the grant; the five-year horizon lets those institutions migrate to a mixed model — admission and membership revenue, local philanthropic and business sponsorship, and where a municipality's own electorate genuinely values a cultural institution, locally-raised and locally-accountable funding rather than a centrally-formula'd grant. The five years honour reliance without pretending the function has an enduring claim on involuntary national taxation.
Átállási mechanizmus
Linear five-year reduction of the formula grant. In year one, municipalities and cultural institutions are notified and begin building admission, membership, and sponsorship revenue. The grant falls by one-fifth of its original value each year, reaching zero in year five. Institutions a community genuinely values transition to voluntary and locally-accountable funding; those that cannot sustain themselves on revealed local demand were, on the framework's logic, mis-sized relative to that demand.
Érintett csoportok
Municipal cultural institutions and their staff; communities accustomed to centrally-subsidised local cultural programming. The displacement is real but modest in scale and skill-transferable.
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