Well that's a strawman. I've seen churches, corporations, and families being run on amazing shoestring budgets, but you couldn't tell from the outside, because the holder of the purse strings was judicious about spending.
Years ago, I learned a peculiar thing about corporate or municipal budgets: sometimes a line item has to be spent or it won't come back next year. So there is often some strong impetus to spend $XXX,XXX -- or else -- and the deadline comes on June 30, and often that is how you arrive at bad spending decisions, because it's "burning a hole in your pocket".
"it's really hard to run an effective school or cyber security enterprise without money."
GP is actually understating this; if my budget and revenue is $0, then I cannot run a school or enterprise at all and it will file for bankruptcy and close.
A strawman is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one being discussed. I never said that a budget should be $0 or "without money". That's a reductio ad absurdum.
Years ago, I learned a peculiar thing about corporate or municipal budgets: sometimes a line item has to be spent or it won't come back next year. So there is often some strong impetus to spend $XXX,XXX -- or else -- and the deadline comes on June 30, and often that is how you arrive at bad spending decisions, because it's "burning a hole in your pocket".