With the approach of next year's presidential election, newspaper headlines reveal how both governing and opposition parties are promising special programs to win over voters. Citizens might come away happy, but officials and scholars are left with the nightmarish task of figuring out where the money will come from to pay for these schemes.
......，隨著明年總統大選日益逼近，朝野各黨紛紛喊出誘惑人心的種種優惠方案，老百姓或可皆大歡喜，然而「錢從哪裡來？」已成為台灣財政官員及學者的夢魘。