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Ratnix t1_j2dk1uo wrote

Because, if one department isn't spending all of their allocated budget, they means they don't need the amount allocated to them. And if they don't need it, some other department surely can use it because they didn't have enough allocated to them.

So department's try to spend their entire allocation so that when they actually do need it, it'll be there.

You don't need the money, right up until you do. And when you do need it, if you don't have that allocation to your department, you're SOL, you'll have to try to get it for next year's/quarterly budget.

Spending it just tells the people who make the budget that you do in fact need the amount allocated to you and to not give some of it to someone else.

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angrybird7677 OP t1_j2ds5id wrote

>Spending it just tells the people who make the budget that you do in fact need the amount allocated to you and to not give some of it to someone else.

Lol. An analogy of this would be a family has 10 children. Each meal, every kid is given an equal portion of food. Sometimes Timmy feels full and doesn't finish his food, so mom gives him less in the future. Because of this rule, every kid are forced to finish their food even if they're not hungry. And that's how the 10 kids got fat

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Chrontius t1_j2e2dmj wrote

That's the best metaphor I've seen so far.

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