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The Ramifications of Performance Based Budgeting

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As a taxpayer, would you prefer your city government to use performance budgeting to target-base budgeting or not? Why? Provide examples to support your response.

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The following posting helps with a political theory problem. This solution discusses performance budgeting and target-base budgeting and its benefits and drawbacks for taxpayers. The explanation is given in 311 words.

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Problem: As a taxpayer, would you prefer your city government to use performance budgeting to target-base budgeting or not? Why? Provide examples to support your response.

As a taxpayer, I would most certainly prefer that my city use performance budgeting methodology in order to effectively target-based budgeting. Performance budgeting, or performance-based budgeting is a highly effective and efficient means of budgeting and allocating resources in a manner that produces the greatest overall results, based on mathematically, and ...

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