Introduction
Today I start my usual extended commentary on the annual Budget. I plan to link the discussion of this year’s Budget with last year’s evaluation of the 2011 Budget (carried in my columns for the period February 6-May 22, 2011). To recall, last year’s review began with reference to two hard core considerations, namely, 1) the integrity of the statistical data, information, and calculations used by government in compiling the 2011 Budget; and 2) the resulting size of government revealed in the Budget
