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  "title": "The €159 Billion Public Sector Nobody Studies | Kangasharju & Kujanpää | Neuvottelija 413",
  "titleOriginal": "159 miljardin julkinen sektori, jota kukaan ei tutki | Kangasharju & Kujanpää | Neuvottelija 413",
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  "guest": "Aki Kangasharju, Emmiliina Kujanpää",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-09",
  "duration": "44:56",
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  "description": "Etla's chief executive Aki Kangasharju landed in a media storm when his view that Finland's debt brake is too strict was read as support for the line that nothing needs to be cut. In this episode he explains what he actually meant: Finland has drifted into an economic-policy impossibility triangle in which growth reforms cannot be made if they cost the public purse a single cent in the short run. EVA's tax specialist Emmiliina Kujanpää and Sami Miettinen ask what taxpayers get for their money, and Kangasharju concedes that the efficiency of Finland's public sector has barely been researched for some twenty years. The conversation covers the corporate tax cut, wellbeing services counties buying in-house from their own companies, falling learning outcomes against rising spending, the weight of pensions in public expenditure, inheritance tax and the Tax Administration's appeals unit. It closes on reduced VAT rates and the goal of Etla's anniversary book: to bring Finland back to Swedish living standards with more than 50 reforms.",
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      "t": "01:11",
      "title": "Aki and Minja Koskela's unholy alliance",
      "seconds": 71
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    {
      "t": "02:11",
      "title": "The guests introduce themselves: Etla and EVA",
      "seconds": 131
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    {
      "t": "02:31",
      "title": "Finland's media game and readings of the debt brake",
      "seconds": 151
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    {
      "t": "03:14",
      "title": "Aki admits a mistake; the anniversary book's growth message",
      "seconds": 194
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    {
      "t": "04:06",
      "title": "Debating Korkman and Vihriälä",
      "seconds": 246
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      "t": "04:22",
      "title": "The economic-policy impossibility triangle",
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      "t": "05:39",
      "title": "Selective criticism of the election budget",
      "seconds": 339
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      "t": "06:55",
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      "seconds": 415
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      "t": "07:52",
      "title": "The corporate tax cut and how revenue accrues",
      "seconds": 472
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      "t": "09:46",
      "title": "The public-purse illusion: every tax does harm",
      "seconds": 586
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      "t": "10:32",
      "title": "What taxpayers get for their money",
      "seconds": 632
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      "t": "11:49",
      "title": "Finland versus Switzerland: a €30 billion gap",
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      "t": "12:29",
      "title": "Public-sector productivity research has been shut down",
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      "t": "17:11",
      "title": "Money follows the patient: the 2010 model",
      "seconds": 1031
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      "t": "19:01",
      "title": "Cuts always hit services, never efficiency",
      "seconds": 1141
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      "t": "20:42",
      "title": "Physician-managers and the politics of the wellbeing counties",
      "seconds": 1242
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      "t": "21:32",
      "title": "Willingness to pay tax falls, tax criticism grows",
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      "t": "22:56",
      "title": "PISA falls while spending per pupil rises",
      "seconds": 1376
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    {
      "t": "23:27",
      "title": "Pensions and elderly care eat the resources",
      "seconds": 1407
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    {
      "t": "24:57",
      "title": "Is Finland's public sector really the largest",
      "seconds": 1497
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    {
      "t": "26:13",
      "title": "Consolidating on the spending side, with AI as a tool",
      "seconds": 1573
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      "t": "26:40",
      "title": "Marginal tax rates and spending-led consolidation",
      "seconds": 1600
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    {
      "t": "28:42",
      "title": "Inheritance tax and Sweden's capital-gains model",
      "seconds": 1722
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    {
      "t": "29:47",
      "title": "Generational transfers and Finland as a greedy taxer",
      "seconds": 1787
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    {
      "t": "32:15",
      "title": "The Taxpayers' Association's calculations and AI",
      "seconds": 1935
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      "t": "33:48",
      "title": "Reduced VAT rates and the Mirrlees Review",
      "seconds": 2028
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      "t": "36:40",
      "title": "VAT on food and voters' attitudes",
      "seconds": 2200
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    {
      "t": "38:09",
      "title": "The Tax Administration's appeals unit and a ten-year dispute",
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    {
      "t": "40:53",
      "title": "AI levels the taxpayer's playing field",
      "seconds": 2453
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    {
      "t": "42:07",
      "title": "Absolution for Aki and the necessity of economic reform",
      "seconds": 2527
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      "t": "42:56",
      "title": "Etla's goal: back to Swedish living standards",
      "seconds": 2576
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      "t": "44:18",
      "title": "Top marginal tax rate to 44 per cent",
      "seconds": 2658
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