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> Wasteful mismanagement of public funds is a plague of Belgian public service. Please don't propagate rightwing ideology. There are plenty of public services and servants who do their job very well. I worked in several administrations with them as an IT manager. Sure there is "corruption" and other things but in my experience, not that much.
It's a bit off topic, bit my favourite corruption story that I tell non-Belgians is the titres-services/dienstencheques racket. Titres-services/dienstencheques is a kind of money that can be used only for household tasks. Think cleaning lady. At the introduction, they costed ~4.70€/hour to the public while designated organisations cashed in 21€/hour. The gap narrowed later, after creating a few nouveau riches, and af…
Another case: present government (rightwing) has lowered the taxes (very significantly) you have to pay when buying a new home. Objective: help people with less financial resources to get a home. What happened so far: price of the houses raised to absorb that new purchasing power. Minister's comment: "people now can buy better quality homes".