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Bill: Armament Proposal
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Beluzian Movement
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: February 3643
Description[?]:
| We have proposed an initial increase to military spending, with 5 bl BEL removed from infrastructure spending, and combined with the 10bl BEL budget surplus, gives a combined 15 bl BEL to put into our military regeneration. We also propose the retention of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons to ward off the threaat of our degenerate imperialist neighbours who threaten to absorb our culture into a uniform dullness. We must ward this off with multispectral colours of vibrancy and death in all forms, artistic and animal. To fund this, we will proposing future transport privatisations, while still maintaining a national, government funded network. We will induce both fluxuation chaos and stability, and we suspect the new innovation through this will drive down costs, keeping us within spending constraints. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
Current: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Current: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The policy with respect to nuclear weaponry.
Old value:: The nation shall never develop, produce or store nuclear weaponry.
Current: The nation shall never produce or store nuclear weaponry for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is fully subsidised by the government.
Current: Public transport is fully subsidised for people with low-income, with the remainder "user-pays".
Proposed: Public transport is fully subsidised for people with low-income, with the remainder "user-pays".
Article 6
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 550,000 BEL | 1,500,000,000 BEL | 1,500,000,000 BEL |
| Foreign Affairs | 220,000,000 BEL | 9,000,000,000 BEL | 9,000,000,000 BEL |
| Internal Affairs | 1,300,000,000 BEL | 10,000,000,000 BEL | 10,000,000,000 BEL |
| Finance | 1,000,000,000 BEL | 10,000,000,000 BEL | 10,000,000,000 BEL |
| Defence | 1,070,000,000 BEL | 18,000,000,000 BEL | 33,000,000,000 BEL |
| Justice | 9,300,000,000 BEL | 10,000,000,000 BEL | 10,000,000,000 BEL |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 10,000,000,000 BEL | 30,000,000,000 BEL | 25,000,000,000 BEL |
| Health and Social Services | 42,600,000,000 BEL | 40,000,000,000 BEL | 40,000,000,000 BEL |
| Education and Culture | 50,000,000,000 BEL | 40,000,000,000 BEL | 40,000,000,000 BEL |
| Science and Technology | 14,000,000,000 BEL | 22,500,000,000 BEL | 22,500,000,000 BEL |
| Food and Agriculture | 13,000,000,000 BEL | 11,500,000,000 BEL | 11,500,000,000 BEL |
| Environment and Tourism | 1,600,000,000 BEL | 8,500,000,000 BEL | 8,500,000,000 BEL |
| Trade and Industry | 8,500,000,000 BEL | 10,000,000,000 BEL | 10,000,000,000 BEL |
| Total | 152,590,550,000 BEL | 221,000,000,000 BEL | 231,000,000,000 BEL |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:32:26, March 27, 2014 CET | From | Beluzian Syndicalist Party | To | Debating the Armament Proposal |
| Message | In a word, why? What possible justification can their be for this lurge towards militarism? |
| Date | 20:06:28, March 27, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Armament Proposal |
| Message | If there's ever been more proof that the old order despises Beluzia, then this it. First they hate democracy and representation. Now they wish our glorious nation to be defenceless and be a stooge to foreign powers. |
| Date | 20:57:05, March 27, 2014 CET | From | Beluzian Syndicalist Party | To | Debating the Armament Proposal |
| Message | Which foreign powers? |
| Date | 20:58:08, March 27, 2014 CET | From | Beluzian Syndicalist Party | To | Debating the Armament Proposal |
| Message | And our party may be a few years older than yours, but our views on society seem to be several millenia ahead. |
| Date | 21:14:02, March 27, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Armament Proposal |
| Message | Complacency laid bear for the people to see. |
| Date | 21:20:16, March 27, 2014 CET | From | Beluzian Syndicalist Party | To | Debating the Armament Proposal |
| Message | Complacency towards what? Nonexistant threats? Fictituous bogeymen? "The people", as you put it, will clearly see through your lies and your scaremongering. |
| Date | 09:32:57, March 28, 2014 CET | From | New Beluzian Movement | To | Debating the Armament Proposal |
| Message | We recommend looking at the military bills of the countries around us. The 'empires' , some being theocratic in nature, reserve the right to use nuclear and chemical weapons in warfare, on any basis they desire, while we have hamstrung ourselves, denying ourselves the right to ward off sickness and death inflicted upon our people. This way, we secure our cultural feedback away from their degeneracy. If you truly wish to see your views on society continue to exist, you will need to keep them away from the yoke of these imperial powers. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 474 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 276 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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