Buy Your Own State

This virtual shop for public services helps to illustrate everything the state does today and how much money it costs us. By entering this imaginary shop you will be able for the first and perhaps last time in your life to choose for yourself which services you really want from "your" state and those for which you would not pay even a single Euro cent. The cost of your state will then be calculated based on your choices and you will discover whether and by how much your taxes might be reduced by your selections. Compare Your savings with this years' budget deficit that should reach EUR 3.7 bln. Are you able to save more?

You may select from services financed from the state budget; covering all public administration services might make the task confusing and unmanageable. You can discover more about the extent and direction of financial transfers from contributions and municipal taxes here

The prices of the individual services come from the approved 2010 state budget. In the calculation, service prices are rounded up to account for ministry expenses which cannot be classified into individual items.
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The Railway company has received a subsidy of 0,13 bln. Eur for the transport performed in public interest in 2010.

Should the current extent of tranport (e.g. No. of trains and routes) be financed directly from passanger payments, tickets would have to cost 3,25 times more. Every citizen of Slovakia has paid on average 28,0 Eur for railways, no matter whether he has entered a train in 2010 or not. For every single kilometer in a train every citizen had to pay 0,07 Eur in taxes. To compare the costs, fuel costs of common automobile, consuming 7l/100km were app. 0,08 Eur per kilometer.

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