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Bill: Full Employment Act
Details
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 not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 3083
Description[?]:
| The Third Way proposes a budget to fully fund the government's various departments, make necessary investments in the economy and education, improve access to health care, allow for more foreign aid, fund the new police forces, develop agriculture and fund the food bank, help make green technologies more affordable for citizens, and still leave a one trillion KRB surplus. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government gives moderate aid to countries in need.
Current: The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries.
Proposed: The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Article 2
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 1,500,800 KRB | 5,000,000 KRB | 1,500,000,000 KRB |
| Foreign Affairs | 9,500,000,000 KRB | 25,100,150,000 KRB | 55,100,150,000 KRB |
| Internal Affairs | 22,000,000,000 KRB | 25,000,000,500 KRB | 55,000,000,500 KRB |
| Finance | 24,000,000,000 KRB | 30,000,000,000 KRB | 30,000,000,000 KRB |
| Defence | 150,000,000,000 KRB | 1,200,000,000 KRB | 1,500,000,000 KRB |
| Justice | 15,000,000,000 KRB | 30,000,000,000 KRB | 40,000,000,000 KRB |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 57,200,000,000 KRB | 5,000,000,000 KRB | 350,000,000,000 KRB |
| Health and Social Services | 242,000,000,000 KRB | 5,000,000,000 KRB | 650,000,000,000 KRB |
| Education and Culture | 150,000,000,000 KRB | 10,000,000,000 KRB | 850,000,000,000 KRB |
| Science and Technology | 25,000,000,000 KRB | 500,000,000 KRB | 42,500,000,000 KRB |
| Food and Agriculture | 57,500,000,000 KRB | 500,000,000 KRB | 35,000,000,000 KRB |
| Environment and Tourism | 15,000,000,000 KRB | 5,000,000,000 KRB | 15,000,000,000 KRB |
| Trade and Industry | 65,000,000,000 KRB | 5,000,000,000 KRB | 435,000,000,000 KRB |
| Total | 832,201,500,800 KRB | 142,305,150,500 KRB | 2,560,600,150,500 KRB |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:00:32, February 27, 2011 CET | From | Third Way | To | Debating the Full Employment Act |
| Message | This bill fulfills our obligation to the Kalistani people to give them a government that works. For years we have been running multi-trillion ruble surpluses at a time when unemployment remains astronomically high, over 10% in Ananto, and only a handful of government agencies have the funding to adequately do their duty. The Kalistani people trust us to invest their money into building a better future. It's entirely possible to do the things we as a society dream of, but we must be willing to make the investment in our people. This proposal will provide the opportunity to make a better life for every Kalistani, it gives the people the government services they pay for, and it will improve our economy, from top to bottom. |
| Date | 16:11:58, February 27, 2011 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Full Employment Act |
| Message | We support, without prejudice. |
| Date | 05:24:20, February 28, 2011 CET | From | Movement for Universal Democracy | To | Debating the Full Employment Act |
| Message | This kind of spending proposals just comes to confirm what the Movement has said all along. We have a huge central government that serves its own interests and not those of the governed. The Third Way, our partners in incrementing devolution and decentralisation, astonish us as to their hypocrisy. They cannot be for a smaller, smarter central government and then propose an expansion of the same central government as they do this in this budget proposal, which will surely lead this country to fiscal ruin and dystopic oppression. |
| Date | 08:57:35, February 28, 2011 CET | From | Third Way | To | Debating the Full Employment Act |
| Message | We must remind our colleagues in the Movement that not only does this proposal leaves a trillion KRB surplus, if it passes government will still account for a minuscule 3.5% of the economy, hardly a "huge central government". Secondly, since the passage of the Local Powers Act, the government now trusts local governments with more responsibilities. However, since this is a new law, most local governments did not have an adequate tax structure in place to fund it. The could either raise taxes on their people, hurting the economy, or the federal government could give part of the surplus to the various Departments without having to institute any new taxes on citizens. We chose the latter. We believe in federalism, which means the federal government and local governments exist side by side. What we had before, with government at .025% of the economy, is not federalism, it is a confederation. We oppose that sort of arrangement because it did not work for our citizens. |
| Date | 06:40:42, March 01, 2011 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Full Employment Act |
| Message | To the Universal Democrats: Allow me to remind you that we are a Unitary Republic. And we are a Socialist State, which occasionally votes right if the left doesn't offer legislation for a significant period of time. We're not sure what sort of financial ruin you are referring to: Our welfare system is second to none, nobody is ever hungry in Kalistan, there is next to no real unemployment (any unemployment we may register is in the private sector, but the public sector comes along then and gets people jobs in National civilian service or in the military,) and we have an equal society, which is largely not stratified, and where length and quality of life are excellent. Why would you want to reduce the power of the National Government to provide services to people? If not for service, what do you think the government is for? What is the purpose of collecting taxes in the first place? The government in Kalistan exists to ensure that people have a stake in Kalistani society: ALL people, not just those who can do for themselves. At the end of the day, what is more democratic than spreading power and access to government out to the entire society? What is more democratic than ensuring that all have everything they need to live a good life and be full citizens of Kalistan, liberated from wage slavery, and from the menace of capitalism? Why would you seek to re-introduce that monster into our society through the use of a criminally small budget and decentralization of services? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 489 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 261 |
| Random fact: The majority of nations in Particracy are "Culturally Protected" with an established cultural background. Only the "Culturally Open" nations are not bound by the rules surrounding culture. The Cultural Protocols Index should be consulted for more information about the cultural situation of each nation. |
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