This is an insightful point that those who push for austerity measures and privatisation always seem to miss. A government saves money if it pays €x to employ

This is an insightful point that those who push for austerity measures and privatisation always seem to miss. A government saves money if it pays €x to employ local taxpayers instead of sending that same amount abroad. It will still break even on the decision if it employs locals for €x+n, where n is the amount they recoup in tax from those locals. Even more if those locals would otherwise be unemployed.