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Bill: Budget proposal of January 2563
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM)
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: December 2563
Description[?]:
| The Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM) propose to adjust the government's spending budget to better address the economic and social situation of the Republic of Telamon. |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 615,152,741 TPD | 1,000,000 TPD | 1,000,000 TPD |
| Foreign Affairs | 4,613,645,560 TPD | 1,000,000 TPD | 1,000,000 TPD |
| Internal Affairs | 7,689,409,266 TPD | 50,000,000 TPD | 100,000,000 TPD |
| Finance | 6,151,527,413 TPD | 50,000,000 TPD | 50,000,000 TPD |
| Defence | 17,839,429,497 TPD | 35,000,000 TPD | 35,000,000 TPD |
| Justice | 4,613,645,560 TPD | 2,200,000,000 TPD | 2,200,000,000 TPD |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 10,765,172,973 TPD | 120,000,000 TPD | 120,000,000 TPD |
| Health and Social Services | 21,530,345,945 TPD | 28,500,000,000 TPD | 28,500,000,000 TPD |
| Education and Culture | 7,689,409,266 TPD | 22,000,000,000 TPD | 25,000,000,000 TPD |
| Science and Technology | 10,765,172,973 TPD | 1,000,000,000 TPD | 1,000,000,000 TPD |
| Food and Agriculture | 21,530,345,945 TPD | 9,000,000,000 TPD | 9,000,000,000 TPD |
| Environment and Tourism | 13,840,936,679 TPD | 3,000,000,000 TPD | 3,000,000,000 TPD |
| Trade and Industry | 18,454,582,239 TPD | 15,000,000,000 TPD | 15,000,000,000 TPD |
| Total | 146,098,776,057 TPD | 80,957,000,000 TPD | 84,007,000,000 TPD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:33:40, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM) | To | Debating the Budget proposal of January 2563 |
| Message | We believe that we must continue to invest in education and cultural pursuits for the benefit of all. With Telamon's population increasing we have more and more children entering our school system. In order to maintain our viability on a global scale we must maintain small class sizes and diversified education. This requires more teachers, more aides, and more funding for the courses of study. Additionally, we need to provide more funding for federal and state police agencies to cover personnel costs along with upgrades to technology and other equipment such as police cruisers. Part of the increase for Internal Affairs (read police agencies) is in conjunction with the Education and Culture budget to provide some monies to allow police officers to earn higher education. It will be a pilot program in which officers, who are accepted to accredited universities/colleges/or other courses of study such as workshops, and meet certain criteria are eligible to have a portion of those expenses reimbursed. It is our hope that this will encourage officers to become better educated thereby better serving their communities. Many aspects of policing requires the usage of new technology. Not all officers are familiar with this new technology and it is necessary to support their strides to better understand and utilize the tools of their trade. |
| Date | 06:16:44, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Telamon Minarchist Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of January 2563 |
| Message | As always, we will vote against unless equal or greater cuts are made to other parts of the federal budget. Lenny Nozick Commandant of TACP's Private Militia |
| Date | 10:17:37, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the Budget proposal of January 2563 |
| Message | We particularly favor the 3 billion in additional funding for Education and Culture, and so will support this budget proposal. James Lott Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
| Date | 14:25:12, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Radical Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of January 2563 |
| Message | We will support the additional funding to Education and Culture, but oppose a Foreign Affairs increase. If this bill is amended to remove the superfluous increase in Foreign Affairs, this will receive my endorsement, but otherwise it will not. Fieren Goldmark Finance Minister |
| Date | 15:30:02, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the Budget proposal of January 2563 |
| Message | We would advise minister Goldmark that the said increase is actually to internal affairs, not foreign affairs. James Lott Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
| Date | 18:09:08, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Radical Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of January 2563 |
| Message | My mistake. A lesson learned here today, that you should always read your notes in full. My apologies, ladies and gentlemen of the House. Fieren Goldmark Finance Minister |
| Date | 18:09:32, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Radical Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of January 2563 |
| Message | And therefore it receives my endorsement. Fieren Goldmark Finance Minister |
| Date | 19:28:27, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM) | To | Debating the Budget proposal of January 2563 |
| Message | To address the TACP's concern our current tax system brings in 87,086,650,640 TPD. If this proposed budget passes our expenses will reach 84,007,000,000 TPD. That leaves a surplus of 3,079,650,640 TPD. If the TACP is concerned about having too high of a surplus we must kindly note that passing this budget will reduce our surplus by about half. It will then take that money and put it to good use instead of having it sit in piles gathering dust. We believe education is an essential service to our citizens. Surely the TACP can agree in that. With the support of the RP, and DCD and the endorsement of Heinrich Gruss Minister of Internal Affairs and Daphne Evars Minister of Education and Culture we hereby move this budget proposal to a vote. -Thorden Raxney COM Party Leader |
| Date | 21:21:47, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Telamon Minarchist Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of January 2563 |
| Message | And as always we believe returning that money to the hard working citizens of Telamon is a better idea than spending it in any fashion. As we stated before to the RP and the DCD; we voted against the last increase and we'll vote against this one, because if you keep adding together all those little and "reasonable" increases in spending then you've gotten a considerably larger government in the end. Lenny Nozick Not Altogether Pleased With This Legislation, Telamon Anarcho-Capitalist party |
| Date | 01:24:20, April 19, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM) | To | Debating the Budget proposal of January 2563 |
| Message | Thank you for supporting this budget that will allow us to better serve the people of Telamon. -Heinrich Gruss and Daphne Evars Ministers of Internal Affairs and of Education and Culture |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 366 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 78 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 57 |
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