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Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo
I think you're using the wrong model here, to be honest - it seems to me that the budget the Student Council President has to work with is a fixed number, so really, this is a zero sum game - "raising taxes" doesn't enter into it. Either the money is spent on one thing, or on something else. And if there's a question of misappropriated funds, that's a matter of malfeasance - liberalism or conservatism doesn't enter into the equation.
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The model I was thinking of here is more like financial management at a crown corporation or non-profit. Although there is indeed a governance aspect, I tend to agree that it's a stretch to bring fiscal conservatism into the equation. (I highly doubt the students can vote to raise the tuition that their parents have to pay, or at least that they could to that without some degree of extra approval.) This is about managing the funds they have more than anything else.