Carlo Cottarelli, appointed by the Italian government to oversee its expenditure review, noted recently that even before spending cuts were enacted, they were being used to finance new spending. The political economy of public-spending reform is tricky, and well-designed macroeconomic plans can be taken hostage by pork-barrel politics.
佩罗蒂言之有理。受意大利政府任命负责支出检查的卡罗·科塔雷利（Carlo Cottarelli）最近指出，即使是在采取支出削减前，它们已被用于为新支出融资。公共支出改革的政治经济学很复杂，精心设计的宏观经济计划可能被分赃政治（pork-barrel politics）绑架。