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Bill: Financial Adjustment Act - Part B: Expenditure
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Democratic 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: July 2572
Description[?]:
| This Bill proposes to make a few moderate adjustments to the budget in order to take advantage of the current surplus and acknowledge changes in both the domestic and international political situation. On the expenditure side it will reduce defence spending to the recommended level of the Ministry of Finance and reduce the level of Head of Government funding given the decentralised nature of the Alorian government. In terms of revenue, this Bill aims to lower taxation for the poorest, while at the same time ensuring a steady flow of money. The level of sales tax is reduced on non-essential items to act as a further stimulator to the economy, while a very low corporation tax is re-introduced in order to balance the books. |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 40,000,000 ALO | 150,000,000 ALO | 130,000,000 ALO |
| Foreign Affairs | 5,300,000,000 ALO | 5,000,000,000 ALO | 5,000,000,000 ALO |
| Internal Affairs | 17,000,000,000 ALO | 150,000,000 ALO | 150,000,000 ALO |
| Finance | 7,000,000,000 ALO | 200,000,000 ALO | 200,000,000 ALO |
| Defence | 30,000,000,000 ALO | 14,250,000,000 ALO | 14,000,000,000 ALO |
| Justice | 35,000,000,000 ALO | 4,500,000,000 ALO | 4,500,000,000 ALO |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 30,000,000,000 ALO | 7,000,000,000 ALO | 7,000,000,000 ALO |
| Health and Social Services | 18,000,000,000 ALO | 35,500,000,000 ALO | 35,500,000,000 ALO |
| Education and Culture | 25,000,000,000 ALO | 15,500,000,000 ALO | 15,500,000,000 ALO |
| Science and Technology | 4,000,000,000 ALO | 3,500,000,000 ALO | 3,500,000,000 ALO |
| Food and Agriculture | 6,500,000,000 ALO | 1,000,000,000 ALO | 1,000,000,000 ALO |
| Environment and Tourism | 2,000,000,000 ALO | 2,750,000,000 ALO | 2,750,000,000 ALO |
| Trade and Industry | 10,000,000,000 ALO | 1,000,000,000 ALO | 1,000,000,000 ALO |
| Total | 189,840,000,000 ALO | 90,500,000,000 ALO | 90,230,000,000 ALO |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:34:50, May 05, 2008 CET | From | Alorian Public Union | To | Debating the Financial Adjustment Act - Part B: Expenditure |
| Message | support. |
| Date | 01:57:25, May 05, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Union | To | Debating the Financial Adjustment Act - Part B: Expenditure |
| Message | Support |
| Date | 12:13:29, May 05, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Financial Adjustment Act - Part B: Expenditure |
| Message | Excellent argument for a modest restructuring of Alorian budget policy. We don't object at all to this end of your proposal. The cuts you've proposed here are sensible. The Defense Ministry has long held that 14 billion is a sound figure for military spending. And while we believe current Head of Government expenditures are sensible, we do acknowledge that there's room to tighten budget some. We'll all just have to make due with smaller staffs and fewer travel junkets. We do have some concerns about your tax proposals. We'll discuss those in that thread. |
| Date | 12:14:13, May 05, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Financial Adjustment Act - Part B: Expenditure |
| Message | To make clear: we'll vote for this budget, though we may not vote for your tax recommendation. |
| Date | 12:18:01, May 05, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Financial Adjustment Act - Part B: Expenditure |
| Message | (we'd even support cutting Head of government to 125 billion--we like round figures) |
| Date | 12:18:14, May 05, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Financial Adjustment Act - Part B: Expenditure |
| Message | rather 125 million |
| Date | 23:52:52, May 05, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Financial Adjustment Act - Part B: Expenditure |
| Message | We will then move this to a vote and examine tax reform subsequently. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 413 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 337 |
| Random fact: Selucia is Particracy's modern take on Ancient Rome, located on the continent of Majatra. |
| Random quote: "[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...[where] the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." - James Madison |