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Bill: Budget proposal of July 3101
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Aloria Party (NAP)
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: June 3103
Description[?]:
| Testimony from Finance Minister Bill Owens to Members of Parliament, regarding the budget and proposed spending cuts. “Members of Parliament I will not sugar coat this for any of you, this virus has taken a toll on the economy as people are spending less money and the revenue from all of the taxes have dropped including the income from the poor and middle class, people don’t have the money as they did before. People lost jobs, and have jobs now with lower wages, they aren’t paying their taxes. We lost sales tax revenue from both essential and goods because people are conserving their money now and this is means corporations have less money now and means a reduction in the revenue from the corporation tax because of people not spending money. If people don’t spend money, the economy will go down, however this happens no matter what an economy is a roller coaster and will always do down and then go up. However it is our job to address this issue, and it is my job to advise the President and Parliament of what they should do, I have proposed a new budget that calls for spending cuts. Aloria has never spent this much in history of spending and we can not unless we tax and tax and tax everyone. More revenue comes from the poor and middle class then the rich actually. Due to some new laws we can’t cut Health and Social Services as they need that funding, education is able to be cut because local governments have control over their testing, instead of the federal government spending billions to create and distubre the tests, I have proposed to cut foreign affairs, to 20 billion, as they only need this kind of budget to operate, internal affairs down to 30 as they only need to keep the other cabinets in line, education and culture down to 95, and justice down to 60, I am cutting my department down to 45 billion as I have left over funds my departments personal budget that we don’t need, I can still run my tax fraud and evasion tax force very well even with the cut Trade and Industry need the funding to help create jobs, Science and technology still needs this funding for the cure to be developed more (Minister Rose says we cant cut from later) and others one are in adequate funding. I accept suggestions from members of Parliament on if any other cuts if they have suggestion for but, further spending on departments can’t happen right now unless we make more cuts. We have a deficit of 57 billion; my proposed budget will make us have a surplus of 22.3 billion. It is not a huge surplus but it is better then a deficit. I strongly advise not to raise taxes because; if people are suffering they don’t need higher taxes. I yield” |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 40,000,000 ALO | 500,000,000 ALO | 500,000,000 ALO |
| Foreign Affairs | 5,300,000,000 ALO | 40,000,000,000 ALO | 20,000,000,000 ALO |
| Internal Affairs | 17,000,000,000 ALO | 60,000,000,000 ALO | 30,000,000,000 ALO |
| Finance | 7,000,000,000 ALO | 60,000,000,000 ALO | 45,000,000,000 ALO |
| Defence | 30,000,000,000 ALO | 49,000,000,000 ALO | 49,000,000,000 ALO |
| Justice | 35,000,000,000 ALO | 70,000,000,000 ALO | 60,000,000,000 ALO |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 30,000,000,000 ALO | 55,000,000,000 ALO | 55,000,000,000 ALO |
| Health and Social Services | 18,000,000,000 ALO | 100,000,000,000 ALO | 100,000,000,000 ALO |
| Education and Culture | 25,000,000,000 ALO | 100,000,000,000 ALO | 95,000,000,000 ALO |
| Science and Technology | 4,000,000,000 ALO | 50,000,000,000 ALO | 50,000,000,000 ALO |
| Food and Agriculture | 6,500,000,000 ALO | 5,000,000,000 ALO | 5,000,000,000 ALO |
| Environment and Tourism | 2,000,000,000 ALO | 1,000,000,000 ALO | 1,000,000,000 ALO |
| Trade and Industry | 10,000,000,000 ALO | 15,000,000,000 ALO | 15,000,000,000 ALO |
| Total | 189,840,000,000 ALO | 605,500,000,000 ALO | 525,500,000,000 ALO |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:31:14, April 06, 2011 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of July 3101 |
| Message | "We actually do need to raise taxes, especially on the rich, the have been doing too well off for far too long and increasing taxes on them is a more fairer alternative then slashing the budget for all of society." -The Hon. Keith Redmond MP. |
| Date | 22:33:03, April 06, 2011 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Budget proposal of July 3101 |
| Message | "Your proposal for the income tax brings in less reveune then we do now currently which would just hurt the deficit more unless you are willing to raise taxes on the poor and middle class and we are not going to do that when we can cut wasteful spending."-Bill Owens |
| Date | 05:32:33, April 07, 2011 CET | From | Christian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of July 3101 |
| Message | "Does the Labour and the rest of the Commies ever stop to think that perhaps the rich have done enough work to enjoy the fruits of their labour? There is a reason they are higher on the income list, they shouldn't be punished for being successful. As for the budget, this would be a nicer alternative to raising taxes, but still the economy has been shrinking as of late; with the shortfall in budget becoming more and more pronounced as the months pass by." - Sebastian Sinclair. |
| Date | 05:59:46, April 07, 2011 CET | From | Christian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of July 3101 |
| Message | We would still support this budget, as it will help tackle the large problem that is our economy and our budget issue. |
| Date | 07:57:00, April 07, 2011 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of July 3101 |
| Message | "Do the Christian Democrats and the rest of the toffs ever stop to think that the working class make up a greater amount of society than the toffs do and therefore deserve a greater say? Do they ever stop and think that society doesn't just revolve around toffs and yet they still have the audacity to treat the working class like dirt. Do they also realise since the toffs have the greatest money they are the ones who should pay the largest amount because they can afford it. Instead the CDP just lets them off scott free and lets them bathe in their pools of money while the poor just get poorer. -The Hon. Keith Redmond MP |
| Date | 23:56:30, April 07, 2011 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Budget proposal of July 3101 |
| Message | "LP this budget does not do anything to hurt the poor, all welfare programs are intacked and everything. The IA, FA, and Finance does not affect the poor or middle class. The cuts to education is small considering how much they are funded plus local governments control a big hgue part of spending, so we don't have to fund that. It's common sense."-Bill Owens |
| Date | 07:16:27, April 08, 2011 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Budget proposal of July 3101 |
| Message | "We must cut spending as well, please give your suggestions so we can hammer out a budget"-Bill Owens |
| Date | 08:39:22, April 08, 2011 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of July 3101 |
| Message | "No I support this budget, it was just that I took offence at those ridiculous statements made by the Christian Democrat MP"s" The Hon. Keith Redmond MP. |
| Date | 17:36:03, April 08, 2011 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Budget proposal of July 3101 |
| Message | "Then we are putting to to vote, thank you LP" |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 459 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 291 |
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