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Bill: Common sense budget proposal
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom Party
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: July 3450
Description[?]:
| The budget is a mess and in deep need of common sense. "Education" "culture" and "science" are simply masks for creating a large unnecessary bureaucratic class that need to make itself needed by making up thinks like "gender studies", "queer theory" and other radicalist ideas to force upon decent ordinary Good Folk™ instead of finding a decent job themselves. We need to take resources from the elitists and put it in places that helps ordinary people, like the defence forces, the police, the environment or things that give jobs to ordinary decent folks. If anything, we should teach people how to become dependent on themselves by growing potatoes, making beer, dipping tobacco and other real things instead of teaching them academical mumbo-jumbo. Common Sense™ - it works! |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 10,000,000,000 DRA | 5,000,000 DRA | 5,000,000 DRA |
| Foreign Affairs | 30,000,000,000 DRA | 30,000,000,000 DRA | 8,000,000,000 DRA |
| Internal Affairs | 30,000,000,000 DRA | 50,000,000,000 DRA | 52,000,000,000 DRA |
| Finance | 25,000,000,000 DRA | 1,000,000,000 DRA | 1,000,000,000 DRA |
| Defence | 15,000,000,000 DRA | 50,000,000,000 DRA | 75,000,000,000 DRA |
| Justice | 30,000,000,000 DRA | 500,000,000 DRA | 10,000,000,000 DRA |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 70,000,000,000 DRA | 100,000,000,000 DRA | 87,000,000,000 DRA |
| Health and Social Services | 60,000,000,000 DRA | 200,000,000,000 DRA | 300,000,000,000 DRA |
| Education and Culture | 75,000,000,000 DRA | 300,000,000,000 DRA | 220,000,000,000 DRA |
| Science and Technology | 50,000,000,000 DRA | 30,000,000,000 DRA | 1,000,000,000 DRA |
| Food and Agriculture | 60,000,000,000 DRA | 5,000,000,000 DRA | 7,500,000,000 DRA |
| Environment and Tourism | 50,000,000,000 DRA | 20,000,000,000 DRA | 50,000,000,000 DRA |
| Trade and Industry | 60,000,000,000 DRA | 15,000,000,000 DRA | 36,000,000,000 DRA |
| Total | 565,000,000,000 DRA | 801,505,000,000 DRA | 847,505,000,000 DRA |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:28:18, March 04, 2013 CET | From | Popular Action Party 인기있는 행동 | To | Debating the Common sense budget proposal |
| Message | Madam Sepaker, It is strange that a supposedly nationalist party should seek to cut culture spending. The only moves we support are the increase in justice, health and trade/industry spending. The massive and unneccesary cuts in foreign affairs and science spending have no justification. Rosie Liech LOL Finance Critic |
| Date | 15:48:45, March 04, 2013 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Common sense budget proposal |
| Message | Ma'am Speaker, Unfortunately, the "culture" that is government sponsored is mostly radicalist elitism, often grossly ideologically slanted and quality-wise on the level of a three-year old. True culture that expresses the cultural character of the Good Folk™ is grown in local history societies or woodwork convents. Jasmine Ewen, Werin Da spokeswoman on internal affairs |
| Date | 17:56:51, March 04, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Common sense budget proposal |
| Message | Madam Speaker, clearly expanding the current budget deficit is the most irresponsible policy anyone could come up with, regardless of ideological motivation. We therefore reject this budget proposal as an inherently flawed and reckless bill. James Whittaker MP Member for Magadonia GNP Finance Spokesman |
| Date | 18:01:54, March 04, 2013 CET | From | Gukmindang | To | Debating the Common sense budget proposal |
| Message | OOC: Dranland actually has a small budget surplus at the moment. In recent decades, I think we've only ever had very small budget deficits - and they've not usually lasted for very long. |
| Date | 18:07:23, March 04, 2013 CET | From | Gukmindang | To | Debating the Common sense budget proposal |
| Message | Madam Speaker, as a former university professor of marine biology, I to some extent share the WD's concerns about how further and higher education have unduly focussed on some subjects whilst neglecting others. The sciences, in particular, are woefully underfunded - although of course, given my background, you would probably expect me to say that! Taken as a whole, though, this budget is unacceptable. The overall spending increase would not be matched by an increase in revenue from taxation - leaving us with a budget deficit. We are opposed to some of the very harsh proposed cuts as well - especially those to the education budget. Education is the future of our country. Without it, we are not giving the next generation a fair chance. Haneul Han MP General Secretary of the Gukmindang |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 650 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 49 |
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