By Joe Hill Treasury officials are often criticised for making budgets add up in the short term at the expense of long-term goals. That’s true, but imagine the money that would be wasted if they didn’t! Writes Joe Hill Budgets are divisive, everyone has their own gripe. Too much spending, or too little. Not enough growth, or too much of the wrong kind of growth. Taxing “working people”, or everyone else. The one thing everyone agrees is that it’s the Treasury’s fault. Whatever the politics of the current Chancellor, the Treasury has long been dogged by accusations that its own culture and inst…