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You could have a poor decision that doesn't make anyone a victim you could raise taxes to 99% or abolish taxation entirely both of which would be poor decisions but wouldn't be violating anyone's rights
What is wrong in this case is the taxpayers are footing the bill for public officials extra legal actions and those same public officials aren't being held accountable criminally because of a mix of political influence prosecutor discretion and standards of evidence
Criminally charging people with destruction of property - dissuades them from destroying property in the first place
Criminally charging politicians for making poor decisions - dissuades them from making any decision at all, and does nothing to actually fix whatever was wrong >

You're missing the point I'm not saying we should criminally charge politicians for making wrong decisions I'm saying if a politician (or any Public Employee) makes such a wrong decision it provokes a lawsuit against the General Public that costs the general public a significant amount of money the General Public should be empowered to criminally charge them with a destruction of public property of that amount of money
( I would agree maybe the term destruction of public property is wrong because it's not destroyed just transferred to the victims but I don't know exactly what you'd call what I'm trying to make a legal to charge them with provoking a lawsuit?) >

Ok, that does not address my point
Criminally charging politicians for making poor decisions - dissuades them from making any decision at all, and does nothing to actually fix whatever was wrong
You would discourage politicians from doing anything (and probably discourage people from going into politics) if they will be criminally liable for the results of  their policies. You  would also be doing nothing to fix whatever went wrong >

But I'm not saying we should do it for poor decisions they could make as many poor decisions as they want so long as those decisions don't have an observable effect that results in a lawsuit against the taxpayer that causes the taxpayer to pay out
If a public official wants to raise or lower taxes increase or decrease spending change Licensing Laws land use laws hire more public employees or fire some public employees or even create or disband entire agencies this has nothing to do with that or the vast majority of decisions that public officials would make >

If a poor decision did not have a negative observable effect how would it be a poor decision...?
Criminally charging politicians for making decisions with negative observable effects dissuades them from making any decision at all, and does nothing to actually fix whatever was wrong
You would discourage politicians from doing anything (and probably discourage people from going into politics) if they will be criminally liable for the results of their policies. You would also be doing nothing to fix whatever went wrong