Sri Lanka has a bloated public sector that does not pay income tax on their salaries and more that 100 ministers.
The 'vote-on-account' is a departure from the usual 'election budgets' which are unveiled before polls in Sri Lanka with unrealistic spending plans which eventually de-stabilizes the economy and creates high inflation when they are implemented.
The proposed total expenditure is slightly short of one-third of last year's total spending without supplementary estimates.
Sri Lanka's people have a peculiar notion that the 'government can bear the burden and give relief' to the 'masses' not realizing that higher taxes, high inflation or borrowing which will be a burden on yet unborn children is the result of state spending.
The mini-budget, or vote on account had provisions to spend 197.47 billion rupees as current expenditure and a very optimistic 158.
98 billion rupees as capital expenditure and a further 6.22 billion rupees as 'advance account' activities.
"Hopefully