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Bill: Budget proposal of June 3491
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rojalistiska Enhetspartiet
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: February 3492
Description[?]:
| The Rojalistiska Enhetspartiet propose to adjust the government's spending budget to better address the economic and social situation of the De Fem Kungadömena av Telamon. |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 615,152,741 TPD | 1,000,000,000 TPD | 1,000,000,000 TPD |
| Foreign Affairs | 4,613,645,560 TPD | 5,500,000,000 TPD | 5,000,000,000 TPD |
| Internal Affairs | 7,689,409,266 TPD | 5,200,000,000 TPD | 5,000,000,000 TPD |
| Finance | 6,151,527,413 TPD | 1,100,000,000 TPD | 1,000,000,000 TPD |
| Defence | 17,839,429,497 TPD | 16,000,000,000 TPD | 15,000,000,000 TPD |
| Justice | 4,613,645,560 TPD | 3,500,000,000 TPD | 3,200,000,000 TPD |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 10,765,172,973 TPD | 7,800,000,000 TPD | 9,500,000,000 TPD |
| Health and Social Services | 21,530,345,945 TPD | 24,000,000,001 TPD | 25,000,000,000 TPD |
| Education and Culture | 7,689,409,266 TPD | 17,800,000,000 TPD | 15,000,000,000 TPD |
| Science and Technology | 10,765,172,973 TPD | 6,000,000,000 TPD | 6,000,000,000 TPD |
| Food and Agriculture | 21,530,345,945 TPD | 3,500,000,000 TPD | 4,000,000,000 TPD |
| Environment and Tourism | 13,840,936,679 TPD | 1,430,000,000 TPD | 1,200,000,000 TPD |
| Trade and Industry | 18,454,582,239 TPD | 2,500,000,000 TPD | 2,200,000,000 TPD |
| Total | 146,098,776,057 TPD | 95,330,000,001 TPD | 93,100,000,000 TPD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:44:03, May 27, 2013 CET | From | Rojalistiska Enhetspartiet | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 3491 |
| Message | Madam Chairwoman, it is unfortunate that we haven't been able to make the desired adjustments to our budget due to the unfortunate disaster in Antepec. We have made cuts where they are possible to better balance our budget - this will of course be a gradual process as we have never been fans of shock therapy. I would like to note a number of spending increases. The one on infrastructure, I'd imagine, has a fairly obvious cause. We as a nation have a moral obligation to help those affected by the earthquake rebuild their city. Health and social services spending has increased to assist unfortunate victims. Food spending has gone up as it's very difficult to obtain decent nourishment in quake-affected areas, and the government must therefore act as a distributor. The decision to cut some science spending has been postponed due to the importance of disaster research to ensure that the impacts of future natural disasters are mitigated as much as possible. Linnea Frisk, Finance Minister |
| Date | 12:47:24, May 27, 2013 CET | From | Socialistiska Forum | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 3491 |
| Message | Madame Chairwoman, We really think that tax rises for the richest Telamonese are better than these cuts. The economy needs higher investment not disinvestment. We will thus oppose this proposal although part of it is clearly good. Hjalmar Sundberg SF Shadow Finance Minister |
| Date | 12:53:32, May 27, 2013 CET | From | Rojalistiska Enhetspartiet | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 3491 |
| Message | Madame Chairwoman, The government needs to be fiscally responsible. While we are glad that we have the support of the SF on some areas of the budget, we believe that over-spending, combined with vindictive money-grabbing from the wealthy as if they are the enemies of society, is never a good thing. Linnea Frisk, Finance Minister |
| Date | 13:26:02, May 27, 2013 CET | From | Socialistiska Forum | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 3491 |
| Message | Madame Chairwoman, Why such sharp cuts to Education? Or Foreign affairs? Clearly the Liberals have lost their way in supporting such We pity the poor teachers of Valtimo who might as well lose their jobs after losing homes, neighbours and students. Hjalmar Sundberg SF Shadow Finance Minister |
| Date | 13:38:40, May 27, 2013 CET | From | Rojalistiska Enhetspartiet | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 3491 |
| Message | Madame Chairwoman, the cuts of education and foreign affairs have been due to the excessive spending of the last government which saw waste and inefficiency. The last government - and the country - was held hostage by extreme left-wing elements which resulted in this tremendous misuse of tax revenue, and the Hon. member ought to be ashamed of it. As for the teachers of Valtimo, it doesn't take a lot of creativity to imagine that we will not be making cuts in earthquake-affected zones. Linnea Frisk, Finance Minister |
| Date | 13:42:56, May 27, 2013 CET | From | Liberaalne Blokk | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 3491 |
| Message | Madame Chairwoman I am pledging to give my departments excessive budget to Education department. If the Finance Minister shall propose a budget that a %90 reduction in my departments budget and add that to education budget, I would be delighted. Kalle Jönnson MF Kansler av Telamon |
| Date | 13:51:43, May 27, 2013 CET | From | Rojalistiska Enhetspartiet | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 3491 |
| Message | OOC: That's discretionary spending, not his personal spending. I imagine that a lot of it would be going to Valtimo. |
| Date | 20:58:21, May 27, 2013 CET | From | Liberaalne Blokk | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 3491 |
| Message | OOC: Not like that Currently HoG has 1 billion in budget and he wants it to reduced to 100 million and add that reduced amount(900 million) to education budget. |
| Date | 10:36:14, May 28, 2013 CET | From | Rojalistiska Enhetspartiet | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 3491 |
| Message | OOC: That's not his money. I think that it's helpful to have something for discretionary spending, but obviously there isn't a box for that. It's a billion for random expenses. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 357 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 142 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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