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Bill: Consentious Objector & Escrow Account Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Capitalist Working Families
Status[?]: defeated
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: May 2467
Description[?]:
| This bill--due to the MECHANICS of the game--doesn't have any "proposals," but we can just "use our imagination"(LOL) and vote based on the bill description. BILL: This legislation amends the budget bill so that if an INDIVIDUAL Rutanian citizen is morally or personally opposed to war and aggressive military spending, he/she can open up an ESCROW ACCOUNT with their local Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that contractually stipulates that the proportion of the National Budget that goes to Military spending (which is 50%) can be proportionally SET ASIDE from a person's personal income taxes. In other words, if the Chairman of the Neo-Epicurean Party is personally opposed to war and military spending, he can have 50% of his taxes set aside in an "Escrow Account" in which the Head of the Treasury is obligated by LAW to direct the money anywhere else in the government EXCEPT the Defense budget. Thank you for your full support. |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 22,000,000 RUT | 9,433,651 RUT | 9,433,651 RUT |
| Foreign Affairs | 285,000,000 RUT | 9,433,651 RUT | 9,433,651 RUT |
| Internal Affairs | 2,463,000,000 RUT | 0 RUT | 0 RUT |
| Finance | 150,000,000 RUT | 1,800,000,000 RUT | 1,800,000,000 RUT |
| Defence | 5,624,000,000 RUT | 15,000,000,000 RUT | 15,000,000,000 RUT |
| Justice | 285,000,000 RUT | 1,425,000,000 RUT | 1,425,000,000 RUT |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 15,313,000,000 RUT | 1,800,000,000 RUT | 1,800,000,000 RUT |
| Health and Social Services | 28,750,000,000 RUT | 1,425,000,000 RUT | 1,425,000,000 RUT |
| Education and Culture | 16,850,000,000 RUT | 1,800,000,000 RUT | 1,800,000,000 RUT |
| Science and Technology | 6,763,000,000 RUT | 1,800,000,000 RUT | 1,800,000,000 RUT |
| Food and Agriculture | 5,931,000,000 RUT | 1,425,000,000 RUT | 1,425,000,000 RUT |
| Environment and Tourism | 1,255,000,000 RUT | 1,425,000,000 RUT | 1,425,000,000 RUT |
| Trade and Industry | 2,663,000,000 RUT | 1,800,000,000 RUT | 1,800,000,000 RUT |
| Total | 86,354,000,000 RUT | 29,718,867,302 RUT | 29,718,867,302 RUT |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:18:17, October 04, 2007 CET | From | Neo-Epicurean Party | To | Debating the Consentious Objector & Escrow Account Act |
| Message | It's a good start. Ideally, I would like all citizens to be able to completely itemize their tax contributions. Say a taxpayer owes 5000 RUT in taxes for the year -- the tax form would enable them to choose which of the many government programs the money would go to, and how much to each. So the funding of government programs would be dictated by the citizens, not the legislature. Sounds complicated, but good software could do it easily. This is the 25th century, after all. |
| Date | 21:29:39, October 04, 2007 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Consentious Objector & Escrow Account Act |
| Message | In fact, Escrow Accounts are the LAW in the U.S. So, if you don't like this current Iraq that Bush is fighting, sign up for one. |
| Date | 02:25:03, October 05, 2007 CET | From | Rutanian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Consentious Objector & Escrow Account Act |
| Message | Oh ffs. NOT AMERICA! |
| Date | 08:33:34, October 07, 2007 CET | From | Libertarians for Applied Market Equity | To | Debating the Consentious Objector & Escrow Account Act |
| Message | I'm confused - didn't CFW bugger off? How did this bill get moved to voting stage? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 80 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 637 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 33 |
| Random fact: Particracy allows you to establish an unelected head of state like a monarch or a president-for-life, but doing this is a bit of a process. First elect a candidate with the name "." to the Head of State position. Then change your law on the "Structure of the executive branch" to "The head of state is hereditary and symbolic; the head of government chairs the cabinet" and change the "formal title of the head of state" to how you want the new head of state's title and name to appear (eg. King Percy XVI). |
| Random quote: "Man is by nature a political animal." - Aristotle |