5. "It makes no sense to cut funding to mental health services when that costs you money in the long run" - sadly, the incentives don't work out that way:

* cost-cutting today means "savings" that you can claim credit for today

* long-term fallout will happen under a future government, who will take the blame - any pushback they might make on that will be lost in the general "everything bad is the fault of a previous government" rhetoric that previous governments flooded us with and so taught us to ignore