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If you are preparing a budget with a competitor for resources, you would probably be willing to haggle over spending on various items in the range of one-half to one percent.  If there were a built-in increase of four percent on your competitor's side, the haggling would become something of a farce.  If you successfully argue for a one percent advantage, your competitor can loudly complain of his cut (while netting three percent) and win sympathy, because the four percent, through sleight of hand, isn't part of the competitive process and happened "at some other time".

If you are preparing a budget with a competitor for resources, you would probably be willing to haggle over spending on various items in the range of one-half to one percent.  If there were a built-in increase of four percent on your competitor's side, the haggling would become something of a farce.  If you successfully argue for a one percent advantage, your competitor can loudly complain of his cut (while netting three percent) and win sympathy, because the four percent, through sleight of hand, isn't part of the competitive process and happened "at some other time".

The taxpayer arguing for lower taxes is like you in the example:  he or she might get a publicized one percent tax cut from the budget while four percent over the budget has already been spent.  [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) 19:01, 8 January 2016 (EST)

The taxpayer arguing for lower taxes is like you in the example:  he or she might get a publicized one percent tax cut out of the budget while four percent over the budget has already been spent.  [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) 19:01, 8 January 2016 (EST)