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Bill: Budget proposal of March 2933
Details
Submitted by[?]: Republican Party of Jakania
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: November 2933
Description[?]:
| The Progress Party of Jakania (PPJ) propose to adjust the government's spending budget to better address the economic and social situation of the United Jakania. |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 70,000,000 JAK | 2,000,000,000 JAK | 2,000,000,000 JAK |
| Foreign Affairs | 4,800,000,000 JAK | 500,000,000,000 JAK | 500,000,000,000 JAK |
| Internal Affairs | 11,700,000,000 JAK | 200,000,000,000 JAK | 200,000,000,000 JAK |
| Finance | 7,700,000,000 JAK | 5,000,000,000 JAK | 5,000,000,000 JAK |
| Defence | 90,000,000,000 JAK | 2,150,000,000,000 JAK | 2,000,000,000,000 JAK |
| Justice | 6,000,000,000 JAK | 100,000,000,000 JAK | 100,000,000,000 JAK |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 236,000,000,000 JAK | 110,000,000,000 JAK | 110,000,000,000 JAK |
| Health and Social Services | 297,000,000,000 JAK | 320,000,000,000 JAK | 320,000,000,000 JAK |
| Education and Culture | 188,000,000,000 JAK | 510,000,000,000 JAK | 510,000,000,000 JAK |
| Science and Technology | 35,500,000,000 JAK | 21,500,000,000 JAK | 21,500,000,000 JAK |
| Food and Agriculture | 14,000,000,000 JAK | 1,000,000,000 JAK | 1,000,000,000 JAK |
| Environment and Tourism | 7,200,000,000 JAK | 8,000,000,000 JAK | 8,000,000,000 JAK |
| Trade and Industry | 50,000,000,000 JAK | 10,000,000,000 JAK | 10,000,000,000 JAK |
| Total | 947,970,000,000 JAK | 3,937,500,000,000 JAK | 3,787,500,000,000 JAK |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:06:52, May 04, 2010 CET | From | The Alliance | To | Debating the Budget proposal of March 2933 |
| Message | In fairness to the government, this is a smart move. Slashing defence spending has enabled us to reduce the deficit which will in turn mean that an incoming JAfP government would not have to raise taxes by as much as was previously thought. However, we still believe that the government made the wrong move in reducing income taxes and this budget is now trying to cover their tracks in increasing our eye-watering deficit. -John Halligan Finance Spokesman |
| Date | 14:29:05, May 04, 2010 CET | From | Republican Party of Jakania | To | Debating the Budget proposal of March 2933 |
| Message | This shows the "center"s really agenda. All it does is hate everything a tad bit to the right. Another socialist party has awakened in Jakania.. We're not trying to cover our tracks. We have saved up 8 trillion JAK for rainy day fund, and we're now using it. That there are no imminent threats is obvious, and therefore we're cutting defense spending. |
| Date | 14:32:24, May 04, 2010 CET | From | The Alliance | To | Debating the Budget proposal of March 2933 |
| Message | There are other effects associated with running a deficit. Other than that, you're eroding that rainy day fund, as you put it, when we could really need it in the future. What if, say down the line, we are attacked or a national emergency (civil war or somesuch) breaks out? |
| Date | 18:01:53, May 04, 2010 CET | From | Republican Party of Jakania | To | Debating the Budget proposal of March 2933 |
| Message | We had an enormously bad recession with 1 trillion setback in GDP. If that's not sufficient for burning off a bit of the rainy day fund, then I don't know what is. |
| Date | 23:34:38, May 04, 2010 CET | From | The Alliance | To | Debating the Budget proposal of March 2933 |
| Message | (OOC: What recession. No god-modding, now.) |
| Date | 00:04:29, May 05, 2010 CET | From | Republican Party of Jakania | To | Debating the Budget proposal of March 2933 |
| Message | OOC: Seriously dude. Our GDP was at 21.5 trillion. Then there were market fluctuations throughout Terra. Heard Zardugal was hit too. Setback of one trillion in one BAM. No kidding around here. That's the hole point of my trying to run deficits to stimulate growth; but apparently you didn't catch my screaming recession 150 times... |
| Date | 00:23:44, May 05, 2010 CET | From | The Alliance | To | Debating the Budget proposal of March 2933 |
| Message | (OOC: I didn't hear about that. Sounds fair enough, but if you want to get the GDP up you should artificially inflate it with higher government spending funded in part by higher taxes.) |
| Date | 00:47:05, May 05, 2010 CET | From | Republican Party of Jakania | To | Debating the Budget proposal of March 2933 |
| Message | (OOC: Yeah, sure, if the only objective is higher GDP, you can just deficit spend to infinity in this game.. but sure, in IG discussions, we will RP to claim that tax cuts revitalize the economy (even though they don't as effective as spending IG) and we'll also say more spending for S&T will spur innovation and all that. But it's important to get the facts straight when it comes to say the recession and all that. I'm keeping a sheet of numbers tracking growth, deficits and all that to keep it a tad bit more interesting to play.) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 127 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 123 |
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