{"id":160867,"date":"2024-06-17T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T16:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=160867"},"modified":"2024-06-17T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T16:47:33","slug":"justifying-that-additional-2-3b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=160867","title":{"rendered":"Justifying that additional $2.3b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economics is the study of scarcity; politics is the pretence that scarcity doesn\u2019t exist. Finance Minister Colm Imbert let that mask slip last Monday when he told Parliament\u2019s Standing Finance Committee (SFC) about the fiscal challenges behind the Government\u2019s \u201crequest\u201d for an additional $2.3 billion. This means the 2024 budget will increase from $59.2 billion<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/editorials\/justifying-that-additional-2-3b\/article_b9864462-239b-11ef-bfa6-cf9b726c6b2a.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economics is the study of scarcity; politics is the pretence that scarcity doesn\u2019t exist. Finance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160867-justifying-that-additional-2-3b.jpg",730,383,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160867-justifying-that-additional-2-3b.jpg",150,79,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160867-justifying-that-additional-2-3b.jpg",300,157,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160867-justifying-that-additional-2-3b.jpg",640,336,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160867-justifying-that-additional-2-3b.jpg",640,336,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160867-justifying-that-additional-2-3b.jpg",730,383,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160867-justifying-that-additional-2-3b.jpg",730,383,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160867-justifying-that-additional-2-3b.jpg",730,383,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160867-justifying-that-additional-2-3b.jpg",730,383,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160867-justifying-that-additional-2-3b.jpg",590,310,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}