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Bill: Budget proposal of May 2442
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federalist Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill proposes to change the allocation of funds in the budget. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2443
Description[?]:
| The Federalist Party propose to adjust the government's spending budget to better address the economic and social situation of the Republic of Cobura. |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 1,300,000,000 COB | 150,000 COB | 150,000 COB |
| Foreign Affairs | 740,000,000 COB | 2,500,000,000 COB | 2,500,000,000 COB |
| Internal Affairs | 13,208,000,000 COB | 2,520,000,000 COB | 2,520,000,000 COB |
| Finance | 14,550,000,000 COB | 40,000,000 COB | 40,000,000 COB |
| Defence | 14,050,000,000 COB | 13,000,000,000 COB | 13,000,000,000 COB |
| Justice | 1,892,000,000 COB | 4,300,000,000 COB | 4,300,000,000 COB |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 38,100,000,000 COB | 7,507,000,000 COB | 7,507,000,000 COB |
| Health and Social Services | 27,500,000,000 COB | 68,055,000,000 COB | 68,055,000,000 COB |
| Education and Culture | 31,000,100,000 COB | 66,505,000,000 COB | 67,515,000,000 COB |
| Science and Technology | 9,190,000,000 COB | 12,000,000,000 COB | 12,000,000,000 COB |
| Food and Agriculture | 2,933,000,000 COB | 3,920,000,000 COB | 3,920,000,000 COB |
| Environment and Tourism | 717,000,000 COB | 11,000,000,000 COB | 11,000,000,000 COB |
| Trade and Industry | 35,180,008,000 COB | 13,000,000,000 COB | 13,000,000,000 COB |
| Total | 190,360,108,000 COB | 204,347,150,000 COB | 205,357,150,000 COB |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:54:07, August 15, 2007 CET | From |  Federalist Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of May 2442 |
| Message | Same passage as the when which failed a while ago.... We propose to add an additional 1,010,000,000 billion COB to Education. The Ministry of Education and minister Metler has come up with a plan on how to use the money effectively: 850 million will go into school repairs, the building of new sports stadiums and centers, building and the adding on of new libraries (including new computers and new books) and building new wings onto schools (science wings, language/culture, shop, ect. wings). 60 million will go into replacing old text books with new and updated ones, TVs and DVDs in classrooms 100 million will go into a teachers pay raise and the funding for more teachers to offer more classes and reduce class size. |
| Date | 17:57:52, August 15, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Budget proposal of May 2442 |
| Message | We will support this small increase in the education budget, by the outgoing, minority government of Cobura. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 252 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 161 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 87 |
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