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Bill: Budget proposal of April 2578
Details
Submitted by[?]: Justice League of Cildania
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: December 2578
Description[?]:
| The Justice League of Cildania propose to adjust the government's spending budget to better address the economic and social situation of the Cildanian Republic. |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 3,000,000,000 CDC | 500,000 CDC | 500,000 CDC |
| Foreign Affairs | 20,000,000,000 CDC | 8,000,000,000 CDC | 8,000,000,000 CDC |
| Internal Affairs | 13,000,000,000 CDC | 34,000,000,000 CDC | 34,000,000,000 CDC |
| Finance | 5,000,000,000 CDC | 23,000,000,000 CDC | 3,000,000,000 CDC |
| Defence | 167,000,000,000 CDC | 20,000,000,000 CDC | 30,000,000,000 CDC |
| Justice | 16,000,000,000 CDC | 30,000,000,000 CDC | 21,000,000,000 CDC |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 75,000,000,000 CDC | 10,000,000,000 CDC | 0 CDC |
| Health and Social Services | 150,000,000,000 CDC | 20,000,000,000 CDC | 0 CDC |
| Education and Culture | 30,000,000,000 CDC | 50,000,000,000 CDC | 0 CDC |
| Science and Technology | 19,000,000,000 CDC | 100,000,000,000 CDC | 0 CDC |
| Food and Agriculture | 28,000,000,000 CDC | 40,000,000,000 CDC | 0 CDC |
| Environment and Tourism | 3,000,000,000 CDC | 20,000,000,000 CDC | 0 CDC |
| Trade and Industry | 31,000,000,000 CDC | 60,000,000,000 CDC | 0 CDC |
| Total | 560,000,000,000 CDC | 415,000,500,000 CDC | 96,000,500,000 CDC |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:19:36, May 18, 2008 CET | From |  Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of April 2578 |
| Message | This bill needs to be discussed jointly with the tax proposal being voted. We have already stated our position towards the federal budget in this house, and while we advocate for the minimization of the government and the progressive reduction of the budget, we are sternly against the complete nullification of departments. Besides, the current taxes give a revenue of about 335 B CDC, while the new tax proposal would make about 115 B CDC. Per the Budget Balancing Act recently passed, this result is incompatible with this budget proposal, as profits would range from 25 B CDC (if the tax proposal is passed) to an outrageous 240 B CDC. These quantities amount to 25% and 250% of the budget, respectively. The Act requires profits to be under 10% of the budget, and unlike with the emergency deficit resolution, there is no legal override. There are two solutions: either taxes are further lowered (which would not really make any sense since at 3% they would be quite low already), or those 15 B CDC of excess profits are redistributed among the nullified departments. This last choice is our preferred option, since those departments cannot just be cut off funding without its _full_ powers being transferred to Cantons. Furthermore, what are the ministers of those departments to do? Just sit in their collapsing offices and starve to death? This budget is not serious, and we'd like to see it corrected for compliance with the Budget Balancing Act. We thought that it would not be necessary to remind parties (and the ruling party of all!), of the importance of obeying the law. Conclusion: our vote on this proposal is in the negative, though we'd support an alternate version corrected for compliance with the BBA. |
| Date | 16:45:43, May 26, 2008 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Budget proposal of April 2578 |
| Message | The ministers of dissolved social programs are in name only, the League cannot justify such ministries to its paying constituents. We feel that an income tax - free system is paramount, as a balanced budget is less important than halting the seizure of the people's earned wages. |
| Date | 22:32:06, May 26, 2008 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of April 2578 |
| Message | Following the recent, irrational tax proposal by the Communist party, we'll side with the JLC on budgetary issues from now on, even though we don't agree with the policy of removing ministries without completely transferring their powers to the Cantons. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 67 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 97 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 11 |
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