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A Budget Is a Moral Document

Behind every allocation is a choice about whose life matters. Read the budget like an autobiography of the state's conscience.

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Editorial Board • 1 Jan 2 min read

A Budget Is a Moral Document
The National Martyrs' Memorial, Savar — Photo: Daily Best News

DHAKA — A budget is never just arithmetic. When health gets crumbs and prestige projects get feasts, that is not a calculation — it is a confession about who counts.

The coming fiscal year must fund clinics before complexes, teachers before towers. Morality, too, has a line item.

Judge every budget by one question: does it comfort the afflicted, or afflict the comfortable?

— Daily Best News Desk • Fearless in the search for truth

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