Excessive expenditure is allocated to public holidays and religious events by authorities and people throughout the world. Huge amount of fundings are directed to official holidays, whereas less amount of money is aimed to faith-based observances.
On the one hand, most of the authorities and humans expend a considerable percentages of their foundations towards commemorative holidays like a New Year. The New Year is recognized as the most ubiquitous holiday across the world. In order to celebrate this holiday, most of the governments spend an important part of their foundation. These expenditures are directed to decorate streets and create more recreational places, while many people spend money on purchasing gifts, ingredients to cook something delicious during the international holidays. For instance, in the USA, the government spent 6.75 billions of dollars to the New Year to social security, medicare. Another statistics have shown that people consider December as the spendiest month during the year due to food, shopping and gifts expenditures that occurs in New Year.
On the other hand, authorities and many people are less likely to disburse money in religious holidays. Because there are are few countries are in the world well-known as religious ones. As almost all of the countries are currently secular, these kind of holiday and festivals don’t attract many people. Because of this, governments and public prefer spending less money to them in order to keep balanced foundation. Taking an example of Bhutan, one of the religious countries, the expenditure for religious festivals even don’t cross a percent of annual general ones.
In conclusion, while state holidays demand more money by humans and authorities, the religious ones involves less