<h1>Budgetary transparency concerns allege fiscal mismanagement and contested tax attribution, challenging infrastructure and employment claims.</h1> The article alleges financial and intellectual bankruptcy of the 2026-27 Karnataka Budget, criticizing it for substituting blame of the Central Government for substantive policy action, failing in revenue collection, and resorting to increased borrowing that allegedly burdens the state. It disputes asserted achievements-staffing, infrastructure, housing, and employment-due to lack of supporting details, and challenges the government's tax-attribution claims by noting corporate multi-state operations and central expenditures that complicate simple measures of fiscal return to the state.