{"title": "Cut Nine Billion of Waste | Lassi Kivinen | Negotiator 168", "titleOriginal": "Leikataan 9 miljardia turhaa! | Lassi Kivinen | Neuvottelija 168", "episodeNumber": "168", "guest": "Lassi Kivinen", "publishedAt": "2023-01-02", "duration": "42:32", "durationIso": "PT42M32S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyd94PaRmxo", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/247-leikataan-9-miljardia-turhaa-lassi-kivinen-neuvottelija-168", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["finnish_economy_policy"], "description": "Lassi Kivinen, chair of Finland's Liberal Party, presents a nine-billion-euro list of spending cuts and justifies it by sorting the budget into public goods and private ones. Defence, the police and the courts are left alone; business subsidies, culture funding, the public broadcaster Yle and the gambling-monopoly grant system go under the magnifying glass. The conversation runs from what he calls structural corruption to the incentive flaw in the wellbeing services counties' funding model, and on to why a transfer payment appears to be Finland's answer to every problem. Kivinen also argues that employing people and selling below market price are not the state's job.", "chapters": [], "sourceTranscriptType": "none", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata and the neuvottelija.fi episode record. No chapter marks are published here: the publisher's list holds only two marks, at 0:00 and 0:51, and the second one's own text quotes a timestamp of 42:32 — it is a split of the show-note text rather than a chapter list, so republishing it would assert timestamps that do not hold. No transcript is published either — the channel has no English caption track for this episode and the Finnish one is YouTube's automatic track. The guest is the chair of a registered political party and the episode is his party's programme argued in his own words; no counter-position is represented in it, and the figures are those of the 2023 budget.", "coreTheses": ["The public-good test, not the size of the line item, decides what can be cut — which is why defence and the courts survive a nine-billion list.", "Subsidy systems create the constituencies that defend them; Kivinen's term for the resulting equilibrium is structural corruption.", "The wellbeing services counties' funding model rewards spending rather than outcomes, so its incentive flaw is a design question, not a budgeting one.", "Reaching for a transfer payment as the default answer converts every policy problem into a permanent expenditure."], "slug": "ep168-leikataan-9-miljardia-turhaa-lassi-kivinen", "guestsCanonical": ["Lassi Kivinen"], "guestPages": ["https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/lassi-kivinen/"], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep168-leikataan-9-miljardia-turhaa-lassi-kivinen/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep168-leikataan-9-miljardia-turhaa-lassi-kivinen/index.md", "captions": null, "transcript": null, "videoId": "Lyd94PaRmxo", "dbId": null, "qaCoveragePct": 0.0, "qaSemanticVerdict": "metadata_only", "aiArticleEn": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep168-leikataan-9-miljardia-turhaa-lassi-kivinen/", "aiArticleFi": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep168-leikataan-9-miljardia-turhaa-lassi-kivinen/"}